湾区大新闻：核光大学CEO Jerry Wang 涉嫌VISA欺诈被逮捕起诉 (转载)# WaterWorld - 未名水世界
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发信人: laoguai (没开迷死吹的老怪), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 湾区大新闻：核光大学CEO Jerry Wang 涉嫌VISA欺诈被逮捕起诉
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Aug 5 12:02:53 2012, 美东)
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_21222408/sunnyvale-univ
15天内所有学生需要转学，15天后拿不出证据，学校关门。核光大学CEO同时也是国际
医药大学的CEO。
除VISA 欺诈，还有制造假文件，非法侵入政府电脑系统等其他罪名。
这个可是第二所中国人开的学校被查出VISA 诈欺了。 中文新闻里面好像都没提到。
。。。
Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges
By Lisa M. Krieger and Molly Vorwerck
Staff writers
Posted: 08/02/2012 05:12:06 PM PDT
Updated: 08/03/2012 04:03:45 AM PDT
Striking a blow at a Silicon Valley school that attracted foreigners with
student visas, federal agents on Thursday raided Sunnyvale's Herguan
University and charged its CEO with visa fraud.
The indictment marks the second time federal officials have ensnared a Bay
Area university in a growing effort to catch up with schools that allegedly
rake in millions of dollars as so-called visa mills.
Herguan University leader Jerry Wang, 32, was arrested Thursday at his home
in Santa Clara and charged in a 15-count indictment that could send him to
prison for up to 23 years and amount to more than $1 million in fines.
The charges come a year after an investigation by this newspaper found
Herguan was among a group of Bay Area schools -- including Pleasanton's now-
shuttered Tri-Valley University -- that misrepresented information on
federal applications, which allowed them to sponsor overseas students for
coveted visas.
In the case of Tri-Valley, federal agents allege the unaccredited school had
been paid millions of dollars by foreigners to obtain student visas that
authorized them to remain in the U.S.
Thursday's indictment said Wang and others at Herguan submitted false
documents, false transfer letters and made false statements to federal
regulators.
Until last year, the school's lobby was decorated with photos of Wang with
former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and commendations from U.S. Rep. Mike
Honda, D-San Jose, among others.
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The case could throw into question the immigration status for about 450
students enrolled at Herguan, most natives of India.
"We actually don't know what is happening at all," said one student who
would only give his first name as Rai.
Last year, dozens of students at Tri-Valley University faced deportation
threats and similar questions when federal agents raided the unaccredited
school and charged its president, Susan Su, with raking in millions of
dollars in a major visa scam.
Federal investigators found more than 550 students enrolled in the Alameda
County university were registered as living at the same address: a two-
bedroom apartment on El Camino Real in Sunnyvale.
The Tri-Valley scandal led U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others to call for
a crackdown on similar schools, and a recent GAO report said Tri-Valley may
be the tip of the iceberg.
On Thursday, attorneys in the Tri-Valley case requested that Su's trial date
be delayed until April, after prosecutors discovered 1,500 new reports
related to the case.
Su was indicted in April of 2011 on 35 counts, including conspiracy to
commit visa fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, alien harboring
and making false statements.
Wang is also CEO of the University of East-West Medicine, which shares a
newly renovated two-story office building on Lawrence Expressway with
Herguan University. The indictment didn't specifically allege problems at
the other school.
"All we know is that Homeland Security showed up unannounced this afternoon,
" said Richard Friberg, vice president of University of East-West Medicine,
who denied any knowledge of the alleged fraud. He said agents looked for
images on computers and took copies of files.
Herguan now faces the loss of its authorization to enroll foreign students
under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Student and Exchange
Visitor Program. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken the
first step to revoke its certification; the university has 30 days to
contest the action.
Herguan was closed Thursday but Friberg said it would reopen Friday.
Students may continue to attend classes so long as the school stays
certified.
But if it closes, they must try to immediately enroll in an accredited
school to maintain their legal status -- or go home, empty-handed, after
spending thousands of dollars toward what they hoped would be an American
degree.
The school, which offers computer science and business degrees, was granted
federal approval in 2008 to accept foreign students. The newspaper's 2011
investigation showed Herguan sent letters to immigration authorities from
three accredited colleges, including Silicon Valley University and
Northwestern Polytechnic University, promising to accept Herguan's credits.
But representatives from those schools told this newspaper last year that
they did not write such letters.
The indictment charges Wang with four counts of visa fraud, four false
document counts, two counts of aggravated identify theft and one count of
unauthorized access to a government computer.
One graduate still connected to Herguan, who only gave his name as Rajiv,
told the newspaper Thursday that the news of the raid came as a shock.
He said foreign students were told if "that in the next 15 days, if
something doesn't change, you either have to find a different school or
leave the country."
发信人: laoguai (没开迷死吹的老怪), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 湾区大新闻：核光大学CEO Jerry Wang 涉嫌VISA欺诈被逮捕起诉
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Aug 5 12:02:53 2012, 美东)
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_21222408/sunnyvale-univ
15天内所有学生需要转学，15天后拿不出证据，学校关门。核光大学CEO同时也是国际
医药大学的CEO。
除VISA 欺诈，还有制造假文件，非法侵入政府电脑系统等其他罪名。
这个可是第二所中国人开的学校被查出VISA 诈欺了。 中文新闻里面好像都没提到。
。。。
Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges
By Lisa M. Krieger and Molly Vorwerck
Staff writers
Posted: 08/02/2012 05:12:06 PM PDT
Updated: 08/03/2012 04:03:45 AM PDT
Striking a blow at a Silicon Valley school that attracted foreigners with
student visas, federal agents on Thursday raided Sunnyvale's Herguan
University and charged its CEO with visa fraud.
The indictment marks the second time federal officials have ensnared a Bay
Area university in a growing effort to catch up with schools that allegedly
rake in millions of dollars as so-called visa mills.
Herguan University leader Jerry Wang, 32, was arrested Thursday at his home
in Santa Clara and charged in a 15-count indictment that could send him to
prison for up to 23 years and amount to more than $1 million in fines.
The charges come a year after an investigation by this newspaper found
Herguan was among a group of Bay Area schools -- including Pleasanton's now-
shuttered Tri-Valley University -- that misrepresented information on
federal applications, which allowed them to sponsor overseas students for
coveted visas.
In the case of Tri-Valley, federal agents allege the unaccredited school had
been paid millions of dollars by foreigners to obtain student visas that
authorized them to remain in the U.S.
Thursday's indictment said Wang and others at Herguan submitted false
documents, false transfer letters and made false statements to federal
regulators.
Until last year, the school's lobby was decorated with photos of Wang with
former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and commendations from U.S. Rep. Mike
Honda, D-San Jose, among others.
Advertisement
The case could throw into question the immigration status for about 450
students enrolled at Herguan, most natives of India.
"We actually don't know what is happening at all," said one student who
would only give his first name as Rai.
Last year, dozens of students at Tri-Valley University faced deportation
threats and similar questions when federal agents raided the unaccredited
school and charged its president, Susan Su, with raking in millions of
dollars in a major visa scam.
Federal investigators found more than 550 students enrolled in the Alameda
County university were registered as living at the same address: a two-
bedroom apartment on El Camino Real in Sunnyvale.
The Tri-Valley scandal led U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others to call for
a crackdown on similar schools, and a recent GAO report said Tri-Valley may
be the tip of the iceberg.
On Thursday, attorneys in the Tri-Valley case requested that Su's trial date
be delayed until April, after prosecutors discovered 1,500 new reports
related to the case.
Su was indicted in April of 2011 on 35 counts, including conspiracy to
commit visa fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, alien harboring
and making false statements.
Wang is also CEO of the University of East-West Medicine, which shares a
newly renovated two-story office building on Lawrence Expressway with
Herguan University. The indictment didn't specifically allege problems at
the other school.
"All we know is that Homeland Security showed up unannounced this afternoon,
" said Richard Friberg, vice president of University of East-West Medicine,
who denied any knowledge of the alleged fraud. He said agents looked for
images on computers and took copies of files.
Herguan now faces the loss of its authorization to enroll foreign students
under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Student and Exchange
Visitor Program. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken the
first step to revoke its certification; the university has 30 days to
contest the action.
Herguan was closed Thursday but Friberg said it would reopen Friday.
Students may continue to attend classes so long as the school stays
certified.
But if it closes, they must try to immediately enroll in an accredited
school to maintain their legal status -- or go home, empty-handed, after
spending thousands of dollars toward what they hoped would be an American
degree.
The school, which offers computer science and business degrees, was granted
federal approval in 2008 to accept foreign students. The newspaper's 2011
investigation showed Herguan sent letters to immigration authorities from
three accredited colleges, including Silicon Valley University and
Northwestern Polytechnic University, promising to accept Herguan's credits.
But representatives from those schools told this newspaper last year that
they did not write such letters.
The indictment charges Wang with four counts of visa fraud, four false
document counts, two counts of aggravated identify theft and one count of
unauthorized access to a government computer.
One graduate still connected to Herguan, who only gave his name as Rajiv,
told the newspaper Thursday that the news of the raid came as a shock.
He said foreign students were told if "that in the next 15 days, if
something doesn't change, you either have to find a different school or
leave the country."