Utah State University’s graduation and commencement ceremony is happening this week. According to the university, a total of 7,471 degrees will be awarded at the ceremony to 6,897 students.
On Thursday, Mohapatra returned to USU after getting his master s degree almost 24 years previous. A conversation moderated by professor of journalism Matthew LaPlante, was held in the Daines Concert
A Layton man convicted of charges related to the defrauding over 500 investors in a Ponzi scheme, an episode that included a decade’s worth of fraudulent donations to Utah State
âThere are no winners here,â said Wayne Klein, a court-appointed conflicts receiver tasked with retrieving around half-a-million dollars fraudulently donated to Utah State University. âThe investors arenât going to get all their money back, Utah State is getting shafted and everybodyâs a loser.â
In June, Klein filed a federal lawsuit against USU to retrieve nearly $545,000 after the university was the recipient of donations from a Ponzi scheme.
According to the complaint filed with the United States District Court for the District of Utah, Salt Lake City coin shop owner Gaylen Dean Rust âoperated a massive Ponzi scheme through which he and others defrauded over 430 individuals out of over $200 million.â