Whiz kid allegedly conned way into Harvard

Source: news.bostonhera Posted By: Valerie M...5302 days ago

Armed with a computer, a baby-faced con man effortlessly bamboozled Harvard University, amassing $46,000 in competitive financial aid based on letters of recommendation he fabricated and educational bragging rights he hadn’t earned, prosecutors have charged.

Even knowing Harvard had caught on to him last fall, accused Ivy League impostor Adam Wheeler, 23, then a senior English major, brazenly tried to get transferred to Yale and Brown universities, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone Jr.....

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