{"id":182956,"date":"2024-10-21T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ul-investigation-recommends-prosecution-of-commerce-inspector-dorr-cooper-for-academic-fraud-several-suspended-others-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:45:21","slug":"liberia-ul-investigation-recommends-prosecution-of-commerce-inspector-dorr-cooper-for-academic-fraud-several-suspended-others-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ul-investigation-recommends-prosecution-of-commerce-inspector-dorr-cooper-for-academic-fraud-several-suspended-others-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: UL Investigation Recommends Prosecution of Commerce Inspector Dorr Cooper for Academic Fraud &#8211; Several Suspended, Others Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 A state-run University of Liberia (UL) investigative committee has recommended the prosecution of Commerce Inspector D. Dorr Cooper for academic fraud, having found him guilty of illegally obtaining an undergraduate degree in Public Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The report detailed that Cooper allegedly paid $10,000 to university staff to impersonate a deceased student, thus enabling his fraudulent graduation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The investigation began after concerns were raised about Cooper&#8217;s eligibility just before&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410180517.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 A state-run University of Liberia (UL) investigative committee has recommended the prosecution of Commerce Inspector D. Dorr Cooper for academic fraud, having found him guilty of illegally obtaining an undergraduate degree in Public Administration. The report detailed that Cooper allegedly paid $10,000 to university staff to impersonate a deceased student, thus enabling his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[14155,258,256,11988,11650,6818,49798,8666,15597,6834,4712,1107,257,4545,7882,254,4314],"class_list":["post-182956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-academic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commerce","tag-cooper","tag-dismissed","tag-dorr","tag-fraud","tag-inspector","tag-investigation","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-prosecution","tag-recommends","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}