<p>This guy got caught. He may end up in jail. </p>
<p>Good for Geogria!</p>
<p>Glad they caught him, but a plea deal and a big fine would be better than jail time. Why waste more public money, since he has already made restitution.</p>
<p>I’m okay with the first guy caught doing jail time. It will be a nice deterrent.</p>
<p>Yeah, cuz that’s what we need, to put more people in prison. If he was wealthy and connected? No prison time. But, let’s put this guy in jail.</p>
<p>Interesting that he is from Virginia, a state that most people consider to have good in-state options.</p>
<p>Do we know he’s not wealthy and connected? A quick google search reveals a man with the same name living in a 4,400 sq. ft. half million dollar Lynchburg home, with a newly remodeled kitchen featured in Central Virginia Home magazine. </p>
<p>@siliconvalleymom:</p>
<p>True, VA has good public options, but you actually have to get in to UVa or W&M in order to avail yourself of those options.</p>
<p>I’d think that a kid who could get into U GA OOS could also get into Christopher Newport, Mary Washington, James Madison, or one of the other public options. It’s not as if U VA, W&M, or VT–all of which are probably superior to U GA-- are the only good choices.</p>
<p>I know what you mean about deterrence, Bay, but we have too many non-violent “criminals” in prison already.</p>
<p>Yes, I am in Virginia. We have great instate options. A quick google search does reveal the younger brother is starting UVa in the fall. He also says on Facebook that he got accepted earlier at UGa (which was probably a backup for him). His sister probably did not get in to the most sought after Virginia schools so went to UGa . Of course that is just a guess.The two kids I know from Virginia that went to Georgia were not the very top students and would not have gotten into UVa. But the difference is their parents were willing to pay for them to go out of state to Georgia. This family wasn’t and now apparently the daughter has had to leave Georgia.</p>
<p>What if he was here illegally? Would they have been as harsh? I doubt it.</p>
<p>UGA is a good school. I think the daughter wanted to go there. You can’t assume that she wanted to go to a University in Virginia. That would be like me saying of a person from Georgia went to XYZ college OOS because they couldn’t get in to UGA. There can be plenty of reasons someone wants to go to a college other than the instate options. Perhaps the family used to live here or maybe someone in the family went to UGA. I’m not trying to defended them. What they did is wrong. But I don’t want this to turn into a UGA a backup school for OOS kids thread either.</p>
<p>If you are illegal you have to pay OOS tuition even if you are a resident.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree that UGA is a great school. Didn’t mean to offend . It is possible it could have been her first choice but if so, the parents should have been willing to pay for it rather than to resort to the shenanigans they did. If they did not want to pay for it, they should have just said no . We do have good alternatives here in Virginia. That is all a couple of us are saying. Or she could have pursued merit ,etc. at OOS schools.</p>
<p>Most kids that go OOS do so because either the family can afford any option or the child has gotten merit aid to bring the cost down or the price is similar to instate options. Not because they have cooked up some elaborate scheme to get instate tuition from a state they don’t live in. He should at least get some kind of community service as it doesn’t seem enough to just pay back the money. I may have missed it but I wonder why the mother was not charged also?</p>
<p>Some people will do anything to game and try and save a buck (or make a buck). He tried. He lost. It was probably not a terrible hardship for him if he made restitution. He was just gaming the system. I’m sure there is probably not a huge backstory. </p>
<p>“It was probably not a terrible hardship for him if he made restitution.” Maybe not but depending on how this plays out, he will possibly end up being a convicted felon. </p>
<p>Similar to M2CK’s point, there’s the 2011 case of Jessical Colotl, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was arrested following a traffic violation on the campus of her suburban Atlanta college, Kennesaw State University. As I recall, one of the charges brought against her was lying on her Georgia HOPE Scholarship application about her status. I’m guessing that those charges were later dropped, just as the deportation case against her was dropped (er…postponed indefinitely).</p>
<p>So, this occurred during financial aid verification?</p>
<p>I believe they let Jessical Colotl graduate. But she had to pay OOS tuition. I doubt that she will ever be deported.</p>
<p>In the UGA case I think someone may have turned them in…</p>
<p>Oh, right; the daughter is 20 years old.</p>
<p>Apparently in the UGA case, it was a matter of a not too bright perpetrator. The AJC article said that poppa submitted tax statements with conflicting information regarding the family address. And Georgia authorities went to the extreme of checking the record of the electronic lock/access on the “family apartment” in Georgia, ultimately discovering that poppa rarely swiped in and out of the apartment building! Ah, what a technological age we live in!</p>