Harvard Discovers A Fake

Today, a twenty three year old man named Adam Wheeler was accused of plagiarizing and faking his way into Harvard. He is originally from Delaware and was enrolled in courses at the school for approximately two years before officials discovered his flaw. Wheeler made claims that the essays he had written were completely of his own and that his SAT scores showed perfect scores across the board. The man claimed that he had achieved these scores from prep school Phillis Academy Andover and prestigious school, MIT. However, the district officials after close investigation found that Wheeler had not attended any of the two.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone says, "This defendant's actions cheated those who competed honestly and fairly for admissions and for the scholarships that this defendant fraudently obtained." On the topic of plagiarism, Wheeler had previously submitted essays to Rhodes and Fulbright, two scholarship funds, however he soon found himself facing the authority. A professor that was in the process of reviewing applications took note of the essays and announced that he had seen similar material in the past. Further discrepancies were discovered. In the applications he filled out, he noted that he had been employed by McLean hospital which is a psychiatric facility belonging to the Harvard community. Officials quickly put two and two together and discovered that Wheeler had been fibbing about his employment as well. He had apparently plagiarized the admissions essays, written fraudulent letters of recommendation from the hospital and was reported for larceny, identity fraud and various other charges.

Wheeler's future academic career does not look too promising. After the prosecutors were notified that Wheeler had plagiarized the essays, the matter was in the hands of a Yale official who had interest in Wheeler's transfer application. Yale soon determined, as Harvard did, that Wheeler's applications were fake and that he had been convicted of identity fraud. The parents of Adam Wheeler told the Yale officials that their son's transcripts, essays, and employment information were all fake. Steven Sussman, Wheeler's lawyer for this case says, "Wheeler will have his day in court, and that day is not today."

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37212545/