California woman gets 16 years in prison for running fake university SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- California woman Susan Xiao-Ping Su has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after founding the fake Tri-Valley University in the San Francisco Bay area. Su opened the Christian university in 2008, claiming to have a faculty of 50 and degree offerings in engineering, medicine and law. The unaccredited university was shut down in 2011 after a raid of her Pleasanton home revealed she charged hundreds of foreigners tuition and fees for visas that allowed them to work and live in the U.S. under the pretense of going to school. As a result, hundreds of mostly Indian nationals are facing deportation after the school was shut down. The online school had no requirements for admission or graduation, and students were issued fake transcripts. Several of the professors said they gave no authorization for the university to use their credentials. "Student visas are intended to give people from around the world a chance to come to this country to enrich themselves with the vast learning opportunities available here, but in this case the defendant was interested in a different kind of enrichment, her own," said Homeland Security special agent Tatum King. Su used the money to purchase commercial real estate, multiple residences and luxury cars. In addition to her prison sentence, she was ordered to forfeit $5.6 million and pay almost $1 million in restitution. The final message on the university's website was "The final message from Ms. Su as TVU's president is an ENCOURAGEMET (sic) to you all to MOVE ON!"