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Anonymous:
It's back from November. Holloway may be pulling double-duty.

Deborah:
Hum. What would ORS think about that?
Who is Holloway's backup at RC?
He or the assistant must be present at all times. And the assistant must know the state regulations and program policies.

Deborah:
Update on Gluhareff/Wellspring Academy from Pg 10
http://www.fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.ph ... 093#221093

FOUNDER OF WELLSPRING ACADEMY PLEADS GUILTY TO BANK FRAUD, TAX FRAUD AND MAIL FRAUD

United States Attorney John L. Brownlee announced today that Robert Serge Gluhareff, age 62, of South Boston, Virginia, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud, one count of tax fraud and one count of mail fraud. The plea was entered in United States District Court in Roanoke pursuant to a plea agreement.

“Mr. Gluhareff has admitted that he misled the families who came to Wellspring Academy for his assistance. Through his words and actions, Mr. Gluhareff took advantage of parents desperate to find a suitable placement for their sons and caused parents and some of their employers to falsely fill out their own tax returns. In addition, Mr. Gluhareff put the funds of a federally insured financial institution at risk,” said United States Attorney John Brownlee. “I commend the hard work of this team of agents and prosecutors who have investigated this case for four years.”

According to evidence presented by Trial Attorney John S. Darden and Assistant United States Attorney Jennie Waering, Gluhareff was the founder and CEO of Wellspring Academy in Sutherlin, Virginia. Wellspring Academy opened in the late 1980's, and was a residential school that was promoted as providing counseling in a Christian setting to young people with academic and behavioral problems. Wellspring Academy operated under the corporate name “The Religious and Educational Institute of Raleigh, Inc.”

For a time, Wellspring Academy admitted both girls and boys. By 1997, it was a school for boys only. From 2000 to 2003, approximately 60 to 100 boys attended Wellspring Academy at any one time. Tuition during this time ranged from $43,000 to $49,000 per student.

From 1999 through 2003, Gluhareff and Wellspring Academy became mired in serious financial difficulty and did not have the money to meet expenses.

When parents brought their sons to Wellspring Academy, they were required to pay an initial $21,500 to $25,000 tuition payment that day. Many parents did not have the funds available and were forced to apply for loans. Gluhareff would convince these parents to write initial tuition checks, but promised not to deposit the checks for an agreed upon period. Gluhareff would then deposit the checks in the Wellspring Academy account, knowing that the parents’ accounts had insufficient funds to cover the check. Gluhareff also deposited bad checks written on his own accounts and credit lines. Based on the fact that Wellspring Academy received next day credit on its deposits, the net effect of Gluhareff’s knowing deposit of these bad checks was that the school account balance was articially inflated and that his school received a series of interest free unsecured loans. Because he wrote checks on this inflated balance by the time of the school’s closing in April 2003, the account was overdrawn by more than $40,000.

Gluhareff would also tell parents that certain tuition payments were tax deductible as “scholarship donations” if they were paid in advance. Gluhareff also asked parents to have their employers donate matching gifts to Wellspring Academy, even though Gluhareff knew the “scholarship donations” were actually student tuition payments and not charitable contributions. Based on Gluhareff’s certifications that part of the tuition payment was tax deductible, parents submitted false tax returns that resulted in a total tax loss to the government of $405,051.56.

The investigation of the case was conducted by the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Virginia State Police, and the IRS. John S. Darden, Trial Attorney with the Department of Justice Fraud Section, Criminal Division and Assistant United States Attorney Jennie L. M. Waering are prosecuting the case.

Sentencing has been set for July 16, 2007 at 2pm.

Anonymous:
I came across this website and want to reply to the incorrect statement that Farington University, of Farington Leyland UK is not a real University.  
Farington University is my NO MEANS A DEGREE MILL!
We have very high standards for application, require on-campus education, thesis and dissertations for all of our degrees.  We are NOT an undergraduate institution and perhaps that has some people confused.  I have also seen links to a website that is NOT our university.  Perhaps someone is using our good name and reputation and issuing fake degrees, but it is most definately not us.  We are accredited in the UK, Ireland, Germany and now the USA along with international distance learning accreditation despite the face that we do not all 100% distance learning.  We recently merged with the Bavarian College of Science and Technology and are building our new multi-million dollar campus in the USA.  We have been in existence since 1948 and our business school (in which I teach) has won the Queens Award for the best Small Graduate School of Business in the UK.  We work closely with Oxford University, Bristol University and the London School of Business.
If you want to know about us, use the correct URL which is www.faringtonuniversity.eu
Thank you for printing this correction.
Robert Thompson, PhD
Professor of Business Science
Farington Graduate School of Business

Troll Control:
hmmmm...  a PhD who can't spell "definitely"...  reads like a diploma mill grad...

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