Use fake transcripts and go to jail!

[steppybay]

[h=2]Seven Plead Guilty to Forging Transcripts in Order to Become Nurses[/h]From CA BON:

SACRAMENTO - Seven people have plead guilty to charges of forgery for using fake transcripts to become licensed as Registered Nurses. All were arrested as a result of a multi-agency probe initiated by the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) that involved the Division of Investigation (DOI), the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Juan Malaluan Tenorio, Jr. and Glyn Cordova Villegas of Kern County, James Quijano Leoncio of Orange County, Philip Tolentino Sarmiento, Laurence Viernes, German Zagada and Jude Dagza Leoncio of Los Angeles County applied for licenses to practice as Registered Nurses in California using false and forged nursing school transcripts from the Philippines. They now face up to three years in prison.

BRN licensing staff were instrumental in assisting with identifying the individuals involved and verifying they did not attend the nursing schools listed on applications for licensure.

"Protecting patient safety is the Board's top priority," said Louise Bailey, Executive Officer of the Board of Registered Nursing. "A nurse without the proper education could be dangerous to a patient."

The Board of Registered Nursing and the Division of Investigation worked with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Internal Revenue Services' Criminal Investigation Division to investigate and arrest the seven. An eighth individual Joanne Keeney, the suspected-ringleader, currently resides in the Philippines. There is a warrant for her arrest.

At the request of the Board of Registered Nursing, a Sacramento County Superior Court Judge ordered Juan Malaluan Tenorio, Jr., Glyn Cordova Villegas, Philip Tolentino Sarmiento, Laurence Viernes, German Zagada, Jude Dagza Leoncio, and James Quijano Leoncio not to practice as registered nurses.

The Board of Registered Nursing filed and served accusations against Juan Malaluan Tenorio, Jr., Glyn Cordova Villegas, Philip Tolentino Sarmiento, Laurence Viernes, Jude Dagza Leoncio and James Quijano Leoncio on May 16, 2014, and German Zagada on May 22, 2014 seeking revocation of their RN licenses.

All seven people are expected to be sentenced June 27, 2014.

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I knew this was going to happen and in some of my previous mentions I've always said, there will be possible time for using fraudulent paperwork that you will be caught and will be spending time inside a concrete "hotel" where there's little freedom to go and drive to get a cup of coffee any time of the day.

This will also apply to those of you who knows of friends, friend of a friend etc who not only used Recto documents (paperwork purchased from the streets of the PH) but also those "adjusting" their clinical and case studies to meet the concurrency rules.

I think that this is already in the works now. It will be obvious from those that graduated from the same school, same year, took the same courses together, but these "students-nurses" got their ATT in CA, but their friends were all denied the approval, it's coming so watch out when HR calls you in the office or there's an unwelcome knock at your place of residence with people that have handcuffs on their belt.

[steppybay]

Still waiting for a update to see if anyone does any jail time.

California Board of Nursing has a well known history for letting nurses whom has been fired, have history of incompetence, Drug theft, violence to go on working in California for many years.

I remember most of the member who make up the Cali BON of Nursing being fired a few years ago, I wonder if anything has changed in this corrupt state...

No updates yet, but if anything, I'm sure, they will either revoke or suspend their license for some time to come and thus, if that's the case, they will not be able to earn a living as a nurse in CA.

They may have had a choice of go to jail or lose your license for good. Losing the license will become even more difficult to go to another state as one of the questions asked on the application have you ever had some sort of problems with your previous license.

Could you elaborate more on your comments of the "corrupt state"? To me, I think the state of CA has been too relaxed on allowing those nurses with those issues mentioned to be allowed to keep their license.

[PinayUSA]

Could you elaborate more on your comments of the "corrupt state"? To me, I think the state of CA has been too relaxed on allowing those nurses with those issues mentioned to be allowed to keep their license.

Corrupt State of Cali:

Governor Firing most of the Cali BON

Schwarzenegger Replaces Most of State Nursing Board - ProPublica

Fake Nursing Schools

Fake Nursing School Closes and Agrees to Pay $500,000 Restitution to Cheated Former Students | State of California - Department of Justice - Kamala D. Harris Attorney General

Illegal Aliens giving Driver Licenses

California to open facilities for illegal immigrants' driver's licenses | The Daily Caller

If this wasn't a nursing forum I would be surprised someone wouldn't make a post about allowing these quasi nurses to keep their license, Because as the story goes "They may be breaking the law, but they are also just trying to find a better life"

Works for the people south of the USA border.........

[steppybay]

FUN Vacation for the Seven!! They will have a grand and good times at the "concrete Ritz-Carlton" for 210 days!

Seven sentenced in Sacramento for filing false documents to obtain nursing licenses - Crime - Sacto 911 - The Sacramento Bee

Click above to read.

There will be others in the near future.

[caliotter3]

This is an affirmation for those who have worked hard to go through the steps to get their CA RN licenses the legal way.

[PinayUSA]

FUN Vacation for the Seven!! They will have a grand and good times at the "concrete Ritz-Carlton" for 210 days!

Seven sentenced in Sacramento for filing false documents to obtain nursing licenses - Crime - Sacto 911 - The Sacramento Bee

Click above to read.

There will be others in the near future.

Should of gave them a large fine and kicked them out of USA, but I guess that would be too hard and take too much time.

Glad they got jail time, but I am sure by now with jail overcrowding in Cali they are probably out by now.

I just wish the courts and immigration would get tough on people who commit felonies, just instead of a hand slap.....

[CaliLVN-RN]

If they worked as nurses then they provided a diservice to the patients. They should have had years of jail time and if here on a work visa then deportation afterwards and banned from re-entrance.