The Chronicle: Employee at a New York Community College Is Charged in Pay-for-Grades Scheme
State prosecutors have accused a computer-laboratory technician at LaGuardia Community College, in Long Island City, N.Y., of taking alcohol and cash — including at least one $2,500 payment — from students in exchange for altering their grades.
In a 137-count indictment, the technician, Elvin Escano, has been charged with, among other things, grand larceny, falsifying business records, computer tampering, and forgery, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by Richard A. Brown, district attorney for Queens County. Mr. Escano has also been charged with tampering with a witness who was called to testify before a grand jury investigating the case.
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