Brooklyn, NY – The mastermind of a six-figure scheme for selling phony Touro College degrees and transcripts yesterday began a one- to three-year prison term for bribe taking and forgery.
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Ex-computer honcho Michael “Mikhail” Cherner, who said “I really do regret what I did,” was the first of three administrators in the sheepskins scandal to be sentenced in Manhattan court.
This story is such a chillul H”. Fraud on top of fraud… I am so glad to see that the administrators at Touro worked with the police to nab these people. I hope they catch every one of these creeps who think they can just cheat their way through life.
Imagine if C”V a sex offender had managed to get one of these degrees to teach children?
I know many administrators at Touro personally and to see their fine work be torn down by a group of pigs engaged in a conspiracy of fraud like this is appalling.
Ex-computer honcho Michael “Mikhail” Cherner, who said “I really do regret what I did,” was the first of three administrators in the sheepskins scandal to be sentenced in Manhattan court.
he only regrets being caught
I hope that all those involved get caught and sentenced. And every “student” gets caught and punished. I would hate to be the client or patient of someone who has a phony degree. This is not the meaning of the coined phrase “paying one’s dues”.
This is just the beginning of more to come. Registration at Touro has recently dropped so much. Those running the place need to get their eyes examined. Many of the frum students are opting for a setting that is really frum and not to have to worry about Shemiras Aynayinm looking at some of the elements Touro has been bending to lately. Besides not hiring more frum faculty they are letting some very fine people go who are being replaced by people who are not those we want teaching our children even if we allow them to go to college. Also replaced are people in maintenence, security and running the college with success and Ehrlichkeit that can’t be matche. They have been servicing Touro for many years.
If Touro things bending over backwards to those who are against us to gain them a more reputable name they are wrong. Currently there are 5 breadwinners who were replaced by people who you would rather see in handcuffs. Then we wonder why so much Tzoros are happening to innocent people.