A former student at Diablo Valley College has pleaded guilty for his part in a large-scale grade-changing scheme at the California institution.
Liberato Rocky Servo, a former student employee in the college’s records office, agreed to help prosecutors in exchange for the reduced sentence of one year in jail, The Argus, a local newspaper, reported.
Mr. Servo is the third ringleader to plead guilty, the newspaper said. The scheme’s mastermind pleaded guilty last September.
Prosecutors have charged dozens of former students at Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College with felonies related to academic fraud.
The students changed their own marks and made thousands of dollars by changing as many as 400 grades for other students. An A went for as much as $600. —Jeffrey Selingo
