Steven K. Randock, who helped run the bogus Saint Regis University, along with many other diploma mills, was sentenced this week to three years in prison, according to The Spokesman-Review, a newspaper in Spokane, Wash. That’s the same as the term meted out to his wife, Dixie E. Randock, at her sentencing last month.
The Randocks and their daughter, Heidi Kae Lorhan, had each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Ms. Lorhan has been sentenced to one year in prison.
Mr. Randock’s lawyer argued that his 69-year-old client was in poor health and would not, among other inconveniences, have access to “the right kind of pillow” in prison. The judge was not sympathetic.
The Spokesman-Review obtained a list of nearly 10,000 people who received degrees from the Randocks’ fake colleges. The list is searchable, or you can browse for familiar names. —Thomas Bartlett
