A Newport Beach woman pleaded guilty to a federal charge after authorities said she paid a company $9,000 to take online classes for her son at Georgetown University.
Karen Littlefair acknowledged paying consultant William “Rick” Singer $9,000 for an employee to take online courses for her son, a Georgetown student. She will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Prosecutors say Littlefair hired Singer’s company to take four online classes on behalf of her son so he could graduate from Georgetown in 2018. Three of the courses were taken through Georgetown, prosecutors said, while one was taken online at Arizona State University and then transferred to Georgetown. Littlefair paid a total of about $9,200.
Her son graduated from the private university in Washington in May 2018. The school previously said it has the authority to revoke degrees if serious misconduct is discovered after a student graduates, but officials have not said whether they took action against Littlefair’s son.In court documents, prosecutors said Littlefair worked with Singer and his employees to make sure the scheme worked.
When one of the classes required a video conference with a professor, Littlefair asked Singer to provide a stand-in for her son since he was scheduled to be out of the country, prosecutors said. An employee at Singer’s company agreed to have a “fellow male colleague” act as Littlefair’s son.
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