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Sunday, January 25, 2004
Mississippi is one of four states still lacking accreditation laws - KAREN NELSON, THE SUN HERALD
Allen Ezell is an FBI agent who served on a diploma scam task force from 1980 to 1991. Although he's now retired and working in bank fraud security in Tampa, Fla., he offers some figures from his 11-year tenure with the FBI. He said federal agents dismantled 40 schools. In the process, they bought 40 bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees and two medical degrees; served 16 federal search warrants; got 19 federal grand jury indictments and 21 convictions. The charges were wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, aiding and abetting, money laundering and counterfeiting. He describes levels of universities that issue unrecognized degrees:
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