“can i hire you [ ] to do my … classes? ill pay you per class,” police officer Morteza Amiri had texted. “I’m gonna rush order my degree to get my pay raise jump started.” Antioch Police Department’s Amiri, 33, is the last of six police officers to be convicted in a scheme to obtain fraudulent college degrees for higher pay. His case was the only one to go to trial, which lasted for four days.