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The defendants included the former director of the school's computer center, three former Touro students, and three public school teachers, as well as Andrique Baron, a former admissions director at Touro.
Baron began running the scheme at least as early as 2003 and possibly even earlier, states an article on www.abcnews.go.com. Michael Chemer, a former director of Touro's computer center, also was involved. Together, Baron, 34, and Chemer, 50, helped "create master's degree transcripts for three city schoolteachers," as well as took bribes to do so, the article continues.
The money was collected by Baron's second accomplice, nicknamed Jimmy Bag, and was spent by Baron on, according to the article, "two luxury cars, high-end audio equipment, and huge flat-screen television sets in almost every room in his home."
After the college became aware of the scheme, Touro informed the district attorney's office. From March to July, six of the 10 defendants were then arrested "on charges of computer trespass, computer tampering, and falsifying business records," says the www.abcnews.go.com article.
Touro, a private Jewish college, has 29 locations, many of which are located in New York, and was founded in 1970.
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