‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million
Home – Political News – ‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million news ‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million Pedro Rodriguez • July 24, 2026 Print U.S. “Institutions reported disbursing $834k to suspected fraudulent applicants and spending over 15,000 hours working to mitigate enrollment fraud,” the 2026 Performance Audit on Enrollment Fraud in Higher Education report noted. Salt Lake Community College alone saw at least 2,000 fraudulent applications in recent years, the report highlighted.
- ▪Home – Political News – ‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million news ‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million Pedro Rodriguez • July 24, 2026 Print U.S.
- ▪“Institutions reported disbursing $834k to suspected fraudulent applicants and spending over 15,000 hours working to mitigate enrollment fraud,” the 2026 Performance Audit on Enrollment Fraud in Higher Education report noted.
- ▪Salt Lake Community College alone saw at least 2,000 fraudulent applications in recent years, the report highlighted.
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Home – Political News – ‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million news ‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million Pedro Rodriguez • July 24, 2026 Print U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on exposing fraud. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images) (function(){var t=document.querySelector(".wp-block-kadence-dynamichtml"),s=document.currentScript.previousElementSibling;if(t&&s){if("prepend"==="before_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t);else if("prepend"==="after_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t.nextSibling);else if("prepend"==="prepend"||"prepend"==="inside_first_child")t.insertBefore(s,t.firstChild);else t.appendChild(s);}})(); According to a recent report from the Utah…
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