Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Tri-Valley University Founder to be Sentenced on June 20

Susan Su, age 43, founder and former president of Tri-Valley University of Pleasanton, will be formerly sentenced on June 20, 2014, on the 31 counts ranging from conspiracy to commit visa fraud to money laundering to alien harboring. Su was found guilty after a jury trial in federal court before the Honorable Jon Tigar.

Su was found guilty of operating a so-called "visa mills," related to a multi-million dollar scheme to illegally provide immigration status to foreign nationals. Tri-Valley University, which catered primarily to online students, was a bogus, unaccredited venture designed to rake in millions of dollars from foreigners who sought to obtain student visas so they could remain in the United States.

Su was found to have defrauded the Tri-Valley students out of about $5.5 million in less than two years, using the money to buy commercial properties in Pleasanton that served as the university's offices as well as a mansion at Ruby Hill Golf Club and a Mercedes-Benz for herself.

Su falsified documents and lied to investigators and immigration officials about how students were affiliated with the school, which lacked instructors or appropriate course material. Federal investigators found more than 550 students enrolled at the Alameda County university were registered as living at the same address, a two-bedroom apartment in Sunnyvale.

4 comments:

kevin said...

Do you know what the sentence was? If sentencing was June 20, how does one find out?

Kevin said...

What was the result here? Although sentencing was scheduled for June 20, no online news site has yet reported on this.

Kevin said...

What was the result of the sentencing?

Kevin said...

What was the sentence? How do we find out?