Congress takes to act diploma mills

If Pittsburgh City Council Woman Twanda Carlisle has come under the control of the last year for the admission of $ 27000 for a controversial study that a friend of her mother, she defended the study and the author said: “It is a Ph.D. He is qualified.”

Otto Lee Johnson, presented the report of 85 pages on the city, health issues, reports written by other agencies and an essay on race and religion, has a doctorate on the resumption of its list of Columbia State University . But it is a school that has never existed unless the company sells a false degree of people who are ready to buy.

Columbia State University, had no campus, and not Faculty of work, was arrested by federal authorities, explains the nature of profitable Internet companies a “diploma mill”. Its owner in 2004, guilty of fraud fees.

“The mere fact that the buyer sends a check or money order. They know what they are buying,” said Allen Ezell, former director of the FBI diploma mill games Task Force. “The mill diploma know what they sell. The third party in the dark.”

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