Parents Implicated in Probe Of Financial-Aid Fraud
Eighteen parents are among the more than two dozen defendants who have been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $2.6 million in student financial aid in the form of federal grants and work-study loans from the U.S. Department of Education.
Scott R. Lassar, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, and Lorraine Lewis, the Education Department's inspector general, announced the charges March 16 after a four-year investigation in what federal officials have described as the largest probe ever of fraud in federal student financial-aid programs.
Twenty- six defendants have been charged in 23 separate criminal cases. Authorities say the inquiry began after a parent raised suspicion by accidentally sending a copy of a fake tax return with underreported income along with a copy of the actual tax return to...
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