留学生匹兹堡大学入学舞弊案新进展|15位中国学生面临判刑或驱逐

去年，匹兹堡大学爆出15名中国学生在各种考试中找代考的惊天丑闻！12月7日，美国匹兹堡当地媒体pittnews的编辑Lauren Rosenblatt撰文称这些中国学生将面临驱逐或被判刑的命运。》》》咨询美国留学

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Pitt alum Han Tong was sentenced on Monday to three years probation and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after a Western Pennsylvania district court determined he took part in a scheme to cheat on college entrance exams.

周一，宾夕法尼亚州西部法庭认定匹兹堡大学校友Han Tong参与了大学入学考试作弊筹划案件后，他被判处三年缓刑，并移交给美国移民和执法局执法人员。

U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti sentenced Tong Monday after he, along with 14 other Chinese individuals, used counterfeit passports to take fraudulent college entrance exams for other students, like the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the Graduate Record Examination and the Test of English as a Foreign Language.

Han Tong伙同其他14名中国人使用假护照顶替学生替考大学入学考试，包括参加SAT、GRE和TOEFL考试。美国地区法官Joy Flowers Conti周一对Han Tong做出宣判。

Tong, who graduated from Pitt in 2011 and used a fraudulent exam to guarantee his admission, now runs the risk of being deported.

Han Tong 2011年毕业于匹兹堡大学，当时在考试中作假得以被录取，现在面临被驱逐的危险。

The 15 conspirators, who were indicted in May 2015, made and sent counterfeit Chinese passports to the United States where imposters used them to trick administrators into thinking they were the conspirators. From 2011 to 2015, the conspirators used this system to take fraudulent college and graduate school entrance exams, the majority of which were in Western Pennsylvania, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

这15名共犯于2015年5月被起诉，他们制造并把伪造的中国护照送给美国的替考人，使管理者相信替考人是策划者。据司法部新闻公布，从2011年到2015年，策划者使用该系统在大学和研究生入学考试中作假，大部分案件发生在宾夕法尼亚州西部。

The defendants were indicted with conspiracy, counterfeiting foreign passports, mail fraud and wire fraud. Tong, who was considered an organizer or leader in criminal activity, was charged with conspiracy, three counts of making and using forged passports, two counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. His case involved seven counterfeit passports.

被告被起诉筹划、伪造外国护照、邮件欺诈和电信欺诈。Han Tong被认定为犯罪活动的组织者或领导者，被指控筹划、制造和使用伪造护照三起罪状、电信诈骗两起罪状和邮件诈骗一起罪状。他的案件涉及7本伪造护照。

According to court documents, Tong did not have any other criminal history.

根据法庭文件，Han Tong没有其他犯罪记录。

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will decide whether or not he will be deported, and his probation will be enacted if he is not deported immediately, according to James Kitchen, an assistant attorney for the US.

跟据美国助理法官James Kitchen，美国移民和执法局将决定他是否被驱逐出美国，如果他没有被立即驱逐出境，将立即服刑。

According to Kitchen, most of the defendants involved in the test-taking scheme have already been sentenced and deported. Now that Tong has been sentenced, Gong Zhang is the only defendant who has not received the same sentence, though he has plead guilty and been convicted. Kitchen said they are just waiting for him to go “through the system.”

助理法官James Kitchen称：在这类考试作弊筹划案件中，大多数被告已被判刑并驱逐。现在Han Tong已被判刑，Gong Zhang是唯一没有受到同样判刑的被告，尽管他已经认罪并被宣判。助理法官James Kitchen说他们只是在等他“通过系统审查”。

Tong’s attorney, James Brink, said on Tuesday he could not comment on the case.

Han Tong的律师James Brink周二说对案件不做评论。

At Pitt, if the University is informed of misconduct on entrance exams, they will revoke admission, according to University spokesperson Joe Miksch. Before submitting an application, Miksch said all undergraduate applicants are informed that they will be asked to “verify the completeness and accuracy of each component of [their] application with [their] online signature.” Besides Tong himself, it’s unclear if any other Pitt students were admitted through the scam, Miksch said.

根据匹兹堡大学发言人Joe Miksch说，在匹兹堡大学，如果大学被告知入学考试中有违规行为，他们将收回录取。该发言人称：在提交入学申请之前，所有本科申请者被告知，要求他们“在线签名保证申请中的各部分是完整和正确的”。

At the time of their indictment, U.S. attorney David J. Hickton said the defendants were not only securing fraudulent admission to American institutions but also bypassing certain student visa requirements.The case, he said in the press release, established that the U.S. Attorney’s Office will “protect the integrity of our passport and visa process, as well as safeguard the national asset of our higher education system.”

在对他们的起诉中，美国律师David J. Hickton说：被告不仅以欺骗行为被美国大学录取，而且绕过某些学生签证要求。他在新闻发言中称：该案件使美国联邦检察官办公室建立了“保护我们护照和签证程序的完整性，并保护美国高等教育系统的国家资产”。

The most recent prosecution “underscores the need to assure that admission to the United States and its educational institutions is honestly and fairly obtained,” acting U.S. attorney Soo C. Song said through a spokesperson.

代理美国律师Soo C. Song通过发言人说，最近的起诉“强调了确保美国录取和其教育机构是诚实和公正的必要性”。

（本文翻译：金妍老师，若需转载请联系留学监理网）

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