A pair of diploma mills that hawked ersatz degrees from Indiana University have shut down in the face of lawsuits, the Associated Press reports.
The sites, DiplomasAndMore and DocumentProfessionals, offered an array of fake high-school and college degrees, said Steve Carter, Indiana's attorney general. His office bought business diplomas from each site; one of the sheepskins misidentified Indiana's Kelley School of Business as the "Kelly" school. In June the attorney general filed suit against the diploma mills, seeking up to $5,000 for every degree they had issued.
Rather than fight the suits, the owners of both sites have agreed to close down their businesses and refrain from selling forged diplomas in the future. –Brock Read
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