A former administrator at a South Florida nursing school was found guilty Wednesday of conspiring with the owner and recruiters to sell about 1,000 fake diplomas for millions of dollars to students recruited from Texas.
Stephanie Dorisca, the ex-director of nursing at Techni-Pro Institute in Boca Raton, was convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud and five related charges following a three-day jury trial in Fort Lauderdale federal court. Dorisca, 57, of Coral Springs, faces up to 20 years in prison.
Dorisca is among more than 40 people charged over the past three years in a scheme that sold roughly 15,000 phony nursing diplomas to South Florida students who paid more than $220 million for shortcuts in their education, federal authorities say. Many recipients later passed state board exams and obtained registered nursing and licensed practical nursing jobs in Florida, New York, Texas, and other states…