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Florida nursing schools peddled fake degrees. Another wave of defendants plead guilty

An estimated 7,600 students paid a total of $114 million for phony nursing degrees from the South Florida schools and other suspect programs between 2016 and 2021, according to the FBI and the U.S ... read more

Federal judge sends grandma, two others to prison for running nursing-school ‘diploma mill’

As a group of weeping supporters bid her farewell, a 72-year-old grandmother was escorted out of a Fort Lauderdale federal courtroom to prison on Tuesday after a judge sentenced Gail Russ to more than ... read more

Florida woman gets 6.5 years in prison in fake nursing school diploma scheme

A South Florida woman was sentenced to more than six years in prison in connection with a multi-million dollar scheme based in South Florida that sold fake nursing school degrees to thousands of ... read more

Stuck in licensing limbo, Florida nursing students want answers. They’re not getting them

which administered the online tests but has refused to issue licenses because of questions about the checkered records and accreditation of some for-profit nursing schools in South Florida. Now, the ... read more

Florida woman gets 6.5 years in prison in fake nursing school diploma scheme

Russ, 72, was the registrar of the Palm Beach School of Nursing in Lake Worth, one of three South Florida schools identified by authorities as participating in the scam that sold more than 7,600 ... read more

South Florida woman gets 6.5 years in prison in fake nursing school diploma scheme

Russ, 72, was the registrar of the Palm Beach School of Nursing in Lake Worth, one of three South Florida schools identified by authorities as participating in the scam that sold more than 7,600 ... read more