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ITHACA, New York--An assistant professor at the University of Florida (UF) was recently charged with grand theft for allegedly using a fraudulent Cornell University transcript to obtain the $33,000-a-year position. The Cornell Daily Sun reported last week.
John William Leigh; arrested January 19, submitted an embossed Cornell transcript to UF officials when he applied for the position last year. Henry A. Newman, UF director of public relations, said. But Cornell has no record of Leigh's attendance, Cornell Registrar Keith E. Ickes said.
Ickes added that the registrar's office sent a former Cornell student's transcript to a "Dr. Leigh" because the request in May contained the student's supposed signature.
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