Posted on 06/26/2024 6:37:37 PM PDT by algore
A single Reddit post exposed a student at an elite college as a fraud who lied his way into the school - and had major legal consequences.
Aryan Anand, 19, was exposed as a total fraud after a Reddit post revealed his web of lies.
Anand pleaded guilty to forgery in Northampton County following revelations that his entire application to the university was fabricated.
The international student was caught after investigators found a post written by an anonymous user they believed to be Anand on the Reddit forum titled, 'I have built my life and career on lies.'
The post recounted how he created fraudulent admission application and financial aid paperwork to get into Lehigh, which has an acceptance rate of 37 percent and tuition of nearly $60,000 per year
Investigators found that Anand had in fact impersonated a school principal and created falsified documents, including phony school transcripts, tax statements and a death certificate for his father, who is in fact alive and well, living in India.
'It was difficult to really verify these things. I think that was great work by Lehigh and their police force. They were able to really dig deep and find all this really was false,'
Anand was arrested in April and charged with multiple offenses including forgery, tampering with records, theft by deception, and theft of services.
On June 12, he pleaded guilty to one count of forgery, classified as a second-degree felony.
Anand initially faced 10 to 20 years in prison, however, at the request of the university his penalty was reduced to expulsion from the school and deportation to India the university waived the request for restitution, estimated at approximately $85,000.
Lehigh University responded in a statement, saying it 'appreciates the report to its ethics hotline
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Criminals often have a need to brag of their “accomplishments”.
And the H1Bs all from diploma mills in Delhi.
Congress should do the same to Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and deport her to Somalia.
And China...
It has been made much easier since schools no longer require the SAT, for which an official government-issued ID is required. During the pandemic, Lehigh and most schools went test-optional, and Lehigh remains a test-optional institution.
If the loser paid $60,000 to attend the school for a year, what exactly was the university's loss here?
Nice to be a privileged foreigner.
He obtained financial aid fraudulently, and the university is out $85K according to the article.
Sounds like what Obama did.
“Anand initially faced 10 to 20 years in prison, however, at the request of the university his penalty was reduced to expulsion from the school and deportation to India. As part of the agreement for his return to India, the university waived the request for restitution, estimated at approximately $85,000.
Lehigh University let’s this guy go scot free with zero repercussions, thus becoming a target of much more of this same kind of fraud since there are no consequences for getting caught .... everything to gain, nothing to lose ...
Rd later.
Lehigh wanted to hush this up by deporting the student quietly back to India. Unfortunately for them, the DA released information to the press.
He probably received scholarships and aid that could have gone to a more deserving and legitimate student.
So, he academically slit his own throat? Wow. If true, he has problems so serious that he cannot control himself.
Lying when you don’t even need to lie. That’s a compulsion.
What does this say about how closely any application is verified at that school? Heads should roll but probably won’t. Not when it’s Lib vs Lib.
didnt faucahontis lie to get into college as staff or something?
Aryan?
No Doubt !
No Doubt !
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