Former Coach Indicted on Fraud Charges for Providing Phony Academic Credits to Basketball Players

A federal grand jury in Kansas indicted a former college-basketball coach last month on charges that he arranged for his players to receive phony academic credit and stole $120,000 in Pell Grants and other funds the players were supposed to have received.

Ryan Wolf was the head men's coach at Barton County Community College, in Great Bend, Kan., from 1998 to 2003. During his time there, according to the indictment, he arranged for athletes to obtain credit for courses they had not

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