Former Dean at Kaplan U. Is Sentenced to Prison

July 21, 2011, 9:03 pm

A former dean at Kaplan University who accused the institution of defrauding the federal government out of student aid was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for sending e-mail threats to university officials and students, Bloomberg reported. The former dean, Ben Wilcox, was convicted last year by a federal jury in Illinois, and he had faced up to an 18-year sentence and a $1.5-million fine. At his trial he asserted that Kaplan had framed him, and the judge, Blanche Manning of the U.S. District Court in Chicago, today criticized him for never expressing “a genuine acceptance of responsibility” for his actions.

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willynilly

Let’s measure this sentence on the so-called “scale of justice”. On one side we have a dean who wrote threatening emails to fraudulent university officials and never acted in anyway on his threats. On the other side we have university officials who were accused (with good evidence) of defrauding the federal government out of millions of dollars (A very common practice in the for-profit sector). Our wonderful justice system decided that its weight would fall upon the dean for his threatining emails; and, as a result, he goes to jail. The fraudulent university officials get a pass so they can defraud again to their hearts content. It truly is a wonderful system.
michaeld10

This is even more disturbing in light of the fact that only this week, an appeals court overturned the conviction of a man who had threatened to assassinate President Obama on the grounds that he was exercising is free speech. Our systems have deteriorated to the point that it is not possible to expect consistent rulings from one court to another.
_perplexed_

There is a great deal of consistency: You can say anything you like about someone who is on the public payroll, but you must kowtow before private corporate entities.
22026266

in just the few short months of this year, my entire understanding of living and being has become undone. Every other time, Every other breath, just about everything about being or making life made joyous sense to me. I have no idea where I am anymore and I’m not clinically or mentally bent. Is this the end not quite explained? Since Kleiby Kletsky’s death, there are no more answers. Bless you, Kleiby’s family!
taxpayeragainstfraud

Great point, my question of the day, there are 3 quitams federal cases against Kaplan that have been pending for over 5 years, why is that taking so long, does anyone have any information on that?