Ex-Strayer University admissions officer, two others sentenced in immigration fraud case
http://fairfaxnews.com/2014/08/ex-strayer-university-admissions-officer-two-others-sentenced-immigration-fraud-case/
Two managers of McLean-based Integrated Academics and a former admissions official for Strayer University have been convicted of conspiring to create fraudulent transcripts so that foreign students would appear eligible to retain their student visas in the United States.
Mohamad Yousef Tellawi, 34, of Falls Church, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, III to 22 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in the immigration document fraud conspiracy. Co-conspirators Lea Dzhin, 37, of Falls Church, and Maher Khudari, 28, of Arlington, previously pleaded guilty and were sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy.
Tellawi and Dzhin also were ordered to forfeit $265,000 in proceeds from the fraud, and Khudari was ordered to forfeit $30,747.65.
From about November 2012 to October 2013, Tellawi and Dzhin conspired with Khudari, an admissions official at Strayer University, to fraudulently create at least 58 official Strayer University transcripts in order to help clients of Integrated Academics retain their F-1 non-immigrant student visas and remain in the United States.