Man caught scamming colleges

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a 27-year-old spent the last five years as an itinerant student. <br> <br> They say Alexander Odom Junior stayed at more than a dozen schools -- including one in Georgia -- just long enough to get a student ID card, open a bank or credit union account and write bad checks. <br> <br> The scheme took Odom from Stanford University in California to the University of Wisconsin to New York University, netting him 85-thousand dollars. Yesterday he was sentenced to two years in federal prison. <br> <br> The Georgia Institute of Technology was among the schools included in the scheme. <br> <br> Martin Carlson is an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He says there was a pattern of schools Odom would hit and defraud in a serial fashion. <br> <br> The 14 bank fraud cases, including one at Penn State, were consolidated in Williamsport.

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