Diploma Mills Expanding While Few Laws Exist To Stop Them

Monroe was one of more than 120 fictitious universities operated by Dixie and Steven K. Randock Sr., a couple from Colbert, Wash., who sold diplomas for a price, according to a three-year federal investigation that ended in guilty pleas from the Randocks to mail and wire fraud. The inquiry into their diploma mill, which operated most often as St. Regis University, provides the most up-to-date portrait of how diploma factories can harness the rapidly evolving power of the Internet to expand their reach. Officials say they are concerned by growth in the industry and about the potential for terrorists to use bogus degrees to obtain United States visas. Law-enforcement officials say there are many obstacles to prosecution. Read more at:
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