Probe launched into sham medical papers
NZPA-Reuter New York Law enforcement officials in the United States have launched a widespread investigation into the validity of thousands of medical credentials, mostly those awarded by Caribbean medical schools, “The New York Times” reports. Federal and state officials were pressing the probe in 15 states in what officials said was the biggest such investigation in 50 years.
The investigation had been prompted by a United States Postal Service discovery last year of what it said was, ‘ r extensive traf-
ficking in fraudulent medical credentials that originated primarily in Caribbean medical schools,” the “Times” said. Quoting Federal and state officials, it said that those who had bought the fake degrees were mostly Americans who paid from JUSSOOO to SUSSO,OOO for them. The “Times” said that noone connected with the investigation would estimate the number of people posing as doctors or medical
trainees, and that not all those with suspicious credentials would prove to be practising medicine illegally.
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