Makings of a President

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This guy has the makings of a President. Even went to Harvard like several other Presidents...

(I bet Barry Soetoro, a former Harvard attendee, told him how to do it?)


Fresh-faced and with an outstanding record of achievement, Adam Wheeler appeared to be a perfect fit on the prestigious Harvard University campus.


Adam Wheeler, of Delaware, was indicted on identity fraud, larceny and falsifying documents from several prestigious schools including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(Delaware State Police/AP Photo)
But prosecutors are now saying the 23-year-old faked his entire educational career duping college and scholarship officials alike and snagging more than $45,000 in grants, scholarships, financial aid and other funds that he didn't deserve.

Wheeler spent the night in a Massachusetts jail and is now awaiting arraignment on more than 20 counts, including identity fraud, larceny and forgery.

Prosecutors said Wheeler kept up his ruse for years, using realistic fake transcripts and documents. But his lies began to unravel in September when, as a senior at Harvard, he applied for the prestigious Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships.

He submitted an application packet that included a transcript saying he had perfect grades and even a list of books and articles he claimed to have written, prosecutors said.

But when a Harvard professor noticed some of Wheelers' writing appeared to have been plagiarized, officials took a closer look and found that his entire record was allegedly a fabrication.

"The crux of these offenses are identity theft, fraud, larceny, and falsification of documents," Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone said.

Leone called the alleged deception "an elaborate, entangled web of lies and deceit in a brazen and offensive scheme."

Officials say they also discovered that Wheeler had allegedly lied his way into Harvard to begin with, forging documents that said he'd attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. And that he'd gotten perfect SAT scores.

But his actual record shows he attended a public high school in Delaware where he did not have perfect SAT scores. He was kicked out of Bowdoin College in Maine.