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    Student who tricked Harvard is sentenced to prison

    WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A Delaware man who faked his way into Harvard has been sentenced to a year in prison for violating his probation by putting the university on his resume.

    A probation department spokeswoman says Adam Wheeler was sentenced Friday at Middlesex Superior Court.

    Prosecutors say the 25-year-old Wheeler got into Harvard and obtained about $45,000 in financial aid by falsely claiming he attended elite schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Last year, he was convicted of identity fraud and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and 10 years' probation. The Milton, Del., man served a month in jail awaiting trial, and the remainder of his sentence was suspended.

    His attorney acknowledged that Wheeler violated probation by representing himself as a Harvard graduate. But he said it was due to financial pressure after losing his job.

     
    • ML  •  4 mths ago
      Sounds like he has a career in politics.
    • The Rogue  •  Sacramento, California  •  4 mths ago
      so a chick found out i wasn't completely honest about the job i had and I actually made less than I said..... she called the cops. how stupid is this? just more "people helping people", as usual.
    • Semaj  •  Manila, Philippines  •  5 mths ago
      A year in prison? That is more time than many states give child molesters.
      • notagain 5 mths ago
        Semaj, arent you happy you dont live here?
        America the twisted.
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        leave it to the casinos vermen media to defend their organized crime run harvard , known fact it was several times mentioned harvard was run by casinosdogratmafia cause of money , they take retard celebs all time like corrupt retard vermenkennedys said he was retarded and wife helped him pass cheat at bar exam he failed so many times , I went to Ivy League and MIT , I was gonna transfer one time believe me they check your transcripts references etc. ; harvard and casinosmedia are covering here cause the mafia rat paid off somebody to get in and fakecasinosmedia themselves don't want to admit , just like ghandis and #$%$ lie to get financial aid and nobody checks out them just give hard time to whitemx Girls ; and vermenbushrat got his boy lover into harvard MBA with no undergrad degree was on Inside vermen Edition
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        this vermenratcasinos media is a lie , this doesn't even make any sense
    • thomas d  •  San Mateo, California  •  5 mths ago
      He should have just gone to work for a brokerage house and started his own hedge fund. That way he'd have made billions from his fraud and politicians would work overtime to keep him from being charged with anything.
      • wjw 5 mths ago
        Most truthful and profound big pic comment of the day out of all the political/news forums. Awesome.
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        this vermenratcasinos media is a lie , this doesn't even make any sense
      • E Pluribus Unum 5 mths ago
        Steal $10,000, they'll send you to jail. Steal $1,000,000,000, they'll make you a senator.
    • walter  •  5 mths ago
      what's wrong with that....dozens of presidents have passed themselves off as leaders!
      • Gene 5 mths ago
        good one !!
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        leave it to the casinos vermen media to defend their organized crime run harvard , known fact it was several times mentioned harvard was run by casinosdogratmafia cause of money , they take retard celebs all time like corrupt retard vermenkennedys said he was retarded and wife helped him pass cheat at bar exam he failed so many times , I went to Ivy League and MIT , I was gonna transfer one time believe me they check your transcripts references etc. ; harvard and casinosmedia are covering here cause the mafia rat paid off somebody to get in and fakecasinosmedia themselves don't want to admit , just like ghandis and #$%$ lie to get financial aid and nobody checks out them just give hard time to whitemx Girls ; and vermenbushrat got his boy lover into harvard MBA with no undergrad degree was on Inside vermen Edition
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        this vermenratcasinos media is a lie , this doesn't even make any sense
    • John  •  5 mths ago
      Curious what kind of grades was he getting at Harvard?
      • Zara Lola 5 mths ago
        I heard it's tough to get in but easy to sail through.
      • Steve 5 mths ago
        His records are sealed.
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        leave it to the casinos vermen media to defend their organized crime run harvard , known fact it was several times mentioned harvard was run by casinosdogratmafia cause of money , they take retard celebs all time like corrupt retard vermenkennedys said he was retarded and wife helped him pass cheat at bar exam he failed so many times , I went to Ivy League and MIT , I was gonna transfer one time believe me they check your transcripts references etc. ; harvard and casinosmedia are covering here cause the mafia rat paid off somebody to get in and fakecasinosmedia themselves don't want to admit , just like ghandis and #$%$ lie to get financial aid and nobody checks out them just give hard time to whitemx Girls ; and vermenbushrat got his boy lover into harvard MBA with no undergrad degree was on Inside vermen Edition
    • Mr. Reasonable  •  Lima, Ohio  •  5 mths ago
      Two years in prison because the 'Havad' elite were fooled? They ought to give him a scholarship in their business school; he's a good representation of what they produce.
      • ANDROLOMA 5 mths ago
        A scammer scammed the scammers. They were too stupid to stop him, and are too stupid to admit they erred. Stupidity among the elite is discouraged, yet prevalent.
      • don 5 mths ago
        BINGO!
      • Meow 5 mths ago
        this vermenratcasinos media is a lie , this doesn't even make any sense
    • Roger  •  5 mths ago
      If politicians went to prison for lieing, Washington, DC would be a ghost town.
    • mighty b  •  Douglasville, Georgia  •  5 mths ago
      He was just practicing to be a future politician,Harvard should have given him an award!
    • 1st Timer  •  5 mths ago
      Arrested because it was Harvard. That says to me that they don't look that closely at your "credentials" if you look or act a certain way. The admissions office should be investigated to determine how they missed this.
    • ALIENS TO EARTHLINGS  •  5 mths ago
      sounds to me this dude is too smart for Harvard lol.
    • Michael  •  5 mths ago
      Jeez... I hope they don't start jailing all the people who've lied on their resume. We haven't enough prisons. And we really don't want to go there... Do's we?
    • Sugarman  •  5 mths ago
      WOW! Fake your way into Harvard, and you get a year in jail. Ruin the entire world economy by bank fraud, default credit swaps, sub-prime mortgages, and hedge funds, you get bailed out by the tax-payers, pay yourselves gross bonuses, and laugh at prosecutors from your ivory tower. The lesson here: you can't steal with carefree abandon until you have paid your dues into the system, chump!
    • Josh  •  5 mths ago
      But in truth, he did go there!
    • Joe  •  Gainesville, Florida  •  5 mths ago
      The corperate theives get less time, its sad..
    • Cole Trickle  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  5 mths ago
      Big deal. So he didn't have a rich dad who could buy his worthless kid in to harvard so he improvised -- he'll be great in politics
    • UVA cavalier  •  Lancaster, South Carolina  •  5 mths ago
      Doesnt say much for their admissions dept
    • beaverlicker69  •  Charlotte, North Carolina  •  5 mths ago
      It's a crime to lie on a resume? Oh yeah I forgot... This is the USA. Everything is a crime now unless you're rich.
    • John  •  5 mths ago
      The American dream go to college ... learn nothing to help you get a job ... have extremely high tuition costs ... the Universities constantly raising tuition way above any inflation rate ... make you buy the most expensive books you will ever buy later in life ... and all you have to show for it is a huge student loan and no job ...

      Why isn't there an "Occupy the University" crowd?????
    • BossMan  •  5 mths ago
      If he'd gotten through college he would be a politician... now, used car salesman is his calling!!
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