Crooked Professor

A professor at the University of Maryland pleaded guilty late last month to a charge that he accepted bribes from three graduate students.

Anthony Gilmore accepted $12,000 in checks from two students who received credit for research work they never performed. A third student received Vs for classes he did not attend.

In return for Gilmore's guilty plea the state attorney general's office dropped charges related to two other bribery cases involving the professor.

Gilmore has not resigned his post as a tenured professor in spite of the guilty plea. The Diamondback University of Maryland