School CEO admits to student loan scheme, staged phony class

Elaine M. Levidow admitted to a fraud that stretched nearly two years.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 10:31 a.m. May 2, 2021
  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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FORT MYERS — A Fort Myers businesswoman who owned a school designed to improve students’ employability skills, has admitted to her role in a scheme that defrauded a federal student loan program out of at least $90,000.

 

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