Three owners and officials of nursing educational institutions from the United States They were charged with wire fraud in a federal court in South Floridafor his role in a network that sold more than 7,600 fake titles for a sum of more than $100 million dollars.
Identified as Gail Russ, registrar at a nursing school in Florida, Cassandre Jean, owner of another in New York, and Vilaire Duroseau, owner and operator of a facility in New Jerseywere found guilty by a jury in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, according to what the Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said.
The trio, along with eleven other people who have already pleaded guilty, face criminal charges for their involvement in a network that sold “fraudulent nursing diplomas and academic records obtained from two private nursing schools” that had approval from the state of Florida to issue them.
According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, in total, more than 7,600 fake nursing diplomas were delivered issued by Palm Beach School of Nursing and Quisqueya School of Nursing LLC, in Palm Beach County, Florida.
“These schools are now closed due to excessive failure rates of their students taking the state nursing board exam.“added the Prosecutor’s Office in a statement.
Specifically, so far this year, 27 people were arrested and charged for their participation in this network that “created an illegal shortcut to obtaining licenses and employment for aspiring nurses,” as the Prosecutor’s Office said.
United States federal authorities reported at the beginning of 2023 that The owners of these schools sold fake nursing degrees for an average of $15,000 each.which left a figure of about $114 million dollars for those educational centers, now closed.
With information from EFE
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