The University of Farmington, a fake school in Michigan, was the product of an undercover operation by the Department of Homeland Security.
Niraj WarikooDETROIT – In February 2018, a foreign student from India called a university in metro Detroit to ask when classes would start.
Sounding confused, the student replied:"I don't know that actually. ... I don't know what to do now." From December 2017 to March 2018, Karnati recruited 39 students for the University of Farmington, including the student who called the university in February 2018 to inquire about his classes, according to his plea deal. He worked in information technology for a health insurance company in Kentucky and did university recruiting as a side job, court records show.
Prasad and other defense attorneys have questioned the sting operation, saying it targeted unsuspecting students who were in the U.S. legally. A Free Press report in November sparked widespread interest in the case, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., among the elected officials raising questions about the operation.
In his guilty plea, Karnati said he had thought that the University of Farmington had online classes. In a WhatsApp chat in January 2018 cited in the memo, a student writes to Karnati:"No need to go college and no assignments is it true?"Prosecutors say university recruiters Phanideep Karnati and Santosh Sama were in a meeting on June 8, 2018, at the University of Farmington with Ali Milani, the name of the fake president of the fake university in Farmington Hills that was created by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a sting operation.
A transcript of the June 2018 meeting shows Milani, the undercover agent, posing as an Iranian American when discussing the types of students at the University of Farmington. Benner said that"each prospective enrollee was informed that there were no classes, curriculum or teachers at Farmington. ... Evidence, including video footage, audio recordings and correspondence collected during the investigation supports that each prospective enrollee knowingly and willfully violated their nonimmigrant status.
After he was criminally charged in January, he lost his job but earned this year a master's degree in business analytics at the University of Louisville and enrolled in their PhD program in computer engineering and computer science. He's now working as a lead data scientist at Traveler's Insurance in Connecticut.
University recruiting is a normal practice, but since Karnati was recruiting for a fake university, he was committing visa fraud, said prosecutors.He notes in his probation statement that the university had a professional website, logo and was listed on the website of the Department of Homeland Security as an approved university for foreign students. Also, an accreditation agency had listed the university.
The building that was used as the fake Farmington University campus by the federal government seen on Thursday, February 7, 2019, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.Prasad also cites recordings of a female student who called the University of Farmington in January 2018.The woman answering the phone at the admissions office of the University of Farmington replied:"We are currently full.
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