Death Sentence for Steve

[Someone]

This is cruel and unfair. Let's start a campaign against this blatant violation of human rights now, "Free Dixie and Steve now. Let them spend the rest of their lives together in luxury, enjoying their spoils rightfully earned by defrauding thousands of people around the world".

well, I sure won't cry myself asleep over some amateur millist who did it all wrong and instead of enjoying the fruit of his fraud on some exotic beach will rot in jail.
However
the mainstream lesson is:
how many times have people read of university of Phoenix and its boiler room tactics, frauds and false promises?
They have been found guilty and paid millions, yet they are still around because they can afford to bribe authorities into stretching their systematic and deliberate poor practice within the limits of 'the understandable' as 'occasional violations'.

"Amateur"? I don't think so. Cocksure of themselves and as a result careless? Definitely yes.

No other mill has ever been able to have "real" - or what is regarded as real in Liberia - accreditation that could be verified officially by both the embassy and the MoE. All other mills pretend to be accredited by bodies they set up themselves.

Richard Novac, a very able man I must admit, used to travel regularly and sometimes spend long periods of time in Liberia where he had contacts with all sorts of high rank officials. SRU had obtained "genuine" (genuine not in the sense that they represented the truth, but in the sense that they were signed by the appropriate officials), official documents of accreditation and also a charter that dated back in 1984. To my knowledge, no other mill has ever been able to do that.

I don't disagree with you about Phoenix and some of those for profit multimillion university enterprises. However, people still get an education there from real professors, they are not run by a bunch of uneducated crooks using a dozen aliases each. That makes a difference, don't you think?

By the way, is Novac going to do time too? And what about Blake Carlson? Does anybody know? I think these two guys were the only ones in the SRU set up who used their real names.