Posted on 06/23/2015 6:20:43 AM PDT by george76
A group of Saudi students caught in a cheating scandal at a Montana college were offered flights home by their kingdom's diplomats to avoid the possibility of deportation or arrest, according to a cache of Saudi Embassy memos recently published by WikiLeaks and a senior official at the school involved.
The students were in a ring of roughly 30 alleged cheaters at Montana Tech accused of having systematically forged grades by giving presents to a college employee. The cheating was discovered — and the staffer was fired — following an investigation made public in early 2012, but the memos reveal for the first time that the students were almost all Saudis and that their government booked them flights home following a meeting between college administrators and Saudi diplomats in Washington just before the scandal broke
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Montana law doesn't bar the alteration of school records — even in return for gifts — but Abbott said that, at the time, campus authorities believed the students could be arrested or even expelled from the country.
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Montana Tech - Is that a flight school???
If you read the article, you would know the answer.
No, the Butte, Montana school started out in 1900 as the State School of Mines.
Now it is known mostly for its emphasis on geology and engineering, including petroleum engineering.
Our friends always seem to spirit their nationals out before they can be deported.
OBL’s family got a free ride out of the country.
Moo visited that Saudi prince in the hospital after the Boston bombing and he was flown home. We never did get the skinny on that. He supposedly had burned hands but there were no bandages on his hands and no sign of any injury.
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