Nursing School Owner Pleads Guilty After Issuing Nearly 3,000 Fake Diplomas

The case is part of the second phase of Operation Nightingale, a multi-state law enforcement action launched in January 2023.

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Carleen Noreus, who owned two nursing schools in South Florida, has pleaded guilty to her role in a scheme that sold nearly 3,000 fraudulent nursing diplomas, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a June 18 statement.

The defendant, 52, from Plantation, Florida, was president of the Carleen Home Health School Inc. in Plantation and vice president of Carleen Home Health School II Inc. in West Palm Beach.