California Police Officer Convicted of Fraud in College Degree, Pay Raise Scheme

A former San Francisco Bay Area police officer accused of paying someone to take their college courses as a way to get a pay raise was found guilty by a federal jury in Oakland, California, on Aug. 9. Ex-Antioch officer Morteza Amiri, 33, is the sixth and final police officer to be convicted of one felony count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one felony count of wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oakland. Amiri was involved in a scheme to get pay raises from the Antioch Police Department, federal prosecutors said in the four-day trial before U.S. Senior District Judge Jeffrey White....