A federal jury found a Coral Springs woman guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a college diploma-mill scheme she helped run while serving as director of a South Florida nursing school program, authorities said.
Stephanie Dorisca, 57, was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud earlier this month during a trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, according to court records.
Dorisca, formerly the head of nursing at Techni-Pro Institute, a nursing school in Boca Raton, conspired with the institute’s owner and school recruiters in a scheme that netted millions of dollars from the sale of around 1,000 falsified college nursing diplomas, which were sold to nursing students recruited by the school from out of state, according to federal prosecutors…