The former dean of Temple University’s Fox School of Business was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison Friday for orchestrating a complex fraud scheme to propel his college to the top of national rankings and defraud its students and donors based on that unearned reputation.fired for the misrepresentations in 2018
Instead, he pleaded with U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert to keep him out of prison so he could care for his ailing wife. “He still doesn’t think he did anything wrong. He has never accepted any responsibility,” the judge said. “He blames everyone else. His first reaction when his bosses caught on to him was to throw everyone he could under the bus.”