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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.
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]
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 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.
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 ...
Some unaccredited institutions are fraudulent diploma mills. [3] ... Carlingford University, Wisconsin; shut down in 2010 [106] Carlton College, Hong Kong [107]
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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]