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The network of nursing school operators, centered in South Florida, illegally charged each student between $10,000 for a licensed practical nurse degree and $20,000 for a registered nurse diploma ...
Saint Regis University, sometimes styled as St. Regis University, was a diploma mill operation that was one of about 120 connected institutions operated by an American fraud ring from about 1999 until 2005, when it was shut down by U.S. government authorities. [1] The operation was known as "Operation Gold Seal". [2]
All were targets of a massive federal crackdown on a nursing-school diploma mill that authorities say was centered in South Florida and extended to the northeast and Texas.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office investigations revealed the relative ease with which a diploma mill can be created and bogus degrees obtained. [51] Records obtained from schools and agencies likely understate the extent to which the federal government has paid for degrees from diploma mills and other unaccredited schools.
Three online "home school" diploma mills have been shut down by the Texas Attorney General for illegally marketing and selling fake high school diplomas for $225 a pop. A temporary restraining ...
The school was shut down after a July 1996 raid by the FBI, U.S. postal inspectors, and the Internal Revenue Service. [8] According to John Bear, the U.S. Attorney wrote to every person in the LaSalle files, officially informing them that LaSalle was nothing more than a diploma mill.
Some U.S. state laws allow authorities to shut down illegal operations of unaccredited schools or diploma mills. [21] In others, particularly, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, and California, the state permits anyone to claim to operate a college and issue degrees with essentially no oversight. [22]
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