A Windham woman was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $65,524.94 in restitution after defrauding two Taiwanese exchange students studying in Maine.
On January 14, 2021, Ni Ni Chang, 51, waived indictment and pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of Maine.
According to court records, between September 2016 and December 2019, Chang hosted two Taiwanese exchange students seeking to study abroad in Maine at the University of Southern Maine and Windham Christian Academy.
Chang falsely represented the cost of tuition and other educational expenses to the families of these students and pocketed the difference between the actual costs and the wrongfully inflated costs.
At sentencing, Chang acknowledged that her actions had been driven by greed.
Both victims attended the sentencing proceeding remotely from Taiwan, and one of the victims addressed the Court during the Zoom proceeding, expressing her gratitude to the American judicial system for helping her family obtain justice.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service.
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Key Facts
- State: Maine
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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