Paraguay prosecutor crusades against fake degrees
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A health department official in Paraguay who worked as a doctor for 15 years and even directed a state clinic was arrested on Monday on charges of fraud and faking his medical degree, a prosecutor said.
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Boston lawyer Evan M. Slavitt, a former federal prosecutor who was a Republican candidate for attorney general in 2002, has had his license to practice law suspended for a year for recommending a man for admission to the Massachusetts bar despite knowing that he had falsely claimed to be a lawyer licensed in California.
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Researchers and defense lawyers call for reform of a tool they say is rigged against the innocent.
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FOSTORIA, Ohio - An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school.
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(Hartford-AP Sept. 24, 2004 1:00 PM) _ All three people named in the federal indictments stemming from the investigation into the Rowland administration have pleaded innocent to the charges.
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A former admissions director at a New York City college was one of 10 people indicted on Monday, accused of forging transcripts and altering grades, prosecutors said.
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Investigators said Friday that Gen. Augusto Pinochet had several phony passports, the latest allegation facing the embattled former dictator who's facing trial on kidnapping and homicide charges.
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Lawyers for former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet are fighting a court ruling that he is fit to stand trial for alleged human rights abuses.
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Former Paraguay President Luis Gonzalez Macchi is jailed for eight years for fraud and embezzlement.
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According to court documents, the man impersonated a lawyer and sent e-mails to domain name owners threatening lawsuits if they did not give up their domain registrations.
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SEOUL -- An epidemic of phony academic credentials has broken out in South Korea, a nation where calibrations of human worth are obsessively tied to college achievement.
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Prosecutors are investigating forgery allegations against the Russian opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov, reports say
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The city's police chief and police dog have degrees from the same online school, according to a defense lawyer challenging the chief's authority.
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Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college's computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians' assistants, they said.
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The city's top watchdog agency has criticized the Fire Department for awarding promotions to firefighters who purchased bogus college degrees on the Internet.
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What Troy Davis' case tells up about the dangers of trying to speed up the wheels of justice
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FOSTORIA, Ohio - The city's police chief and police dog have degrees from the same online school, according to a defense lawyer challenging the chief's authority.