The names of more than 10,000 customers of a now-defunct diploma mill will be kept secret, according to today’s Spokesman-Review, a newspaper in Spokane, Wash.
Releasing the names would apparently violate the policy of the U.S. Justice Department, which prosecuted the operators of the Spokane-based diploma mill, known as Saint Regis University. Last week one operator was sentenced to three years in prison.
In 2006 a lawyer for one of the diploma mill’s employees said that more than 100 federal workers, including a White House staff member, had purchased Saint Regis degrees. —Thomas Bartlett
