Phanideep Karnati, 35, of Louisville, will be sentenced in January 2020, the Free Press reported. ADThe Detroit News reported that the fake university was set up in 2015 but that HSI agents didn’t begin posing as university officials until 2017, according to the indictment. AD“He was desperate to find a way to stay in the United States,” Rampeesa’s attorney wrote in a sentencing memo, according to the Free Press. Rampeesa believed he was working with university officials, though they were actually undercover immigration officials, the Free Press reported. “I am ashamed,” Rampeesa wrote in a letter that was read at his sentencing hearing, reported the Free Press.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2019 00:45 UTC