BRIEFLY CHEATING RING SUED BY TEST ADMINISTERS.Three young men involved in a Law School Admissions Test cheating conspiracy were sued Monday by the organization that administers the examination. None of those named in the suit could be reached for comment. The Law School Admissions Council says Ashot Melikyan was paid $600 to steal a copy of the Feb. 8, 1997, test. He gave it to an unidentified person, who then transmitted the test answers to Dikran Iskendarian and Danny Khatchaturian in Hawaii via pager. Authorities said the person who sent the answers via pager has not been found. The investigation continues, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. prosecutors. Melikyan registered for the exam at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. under an assumed name, according to the lawsuit, and jumped from his seat soon after work began and tried to get away with a copy of the test. A struggle ensued, and the council alleges Melikyan ``pulled out a knife, threatening the proctor'' before escaping into a waiting car. After Iskendarian and Khatchaturian completed their tests, the council alleges, their answers were analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. because the proctor noticed that the two had been ``staring into their pagers during the exam.'' After reviewing their answers on the test, the admissions council determined that there was a ``very high likelihood (the pair) . . . cheated.'' They had to take the test again, and this time scored in the 40th percentile percentile, n the number in a frequency distribution below which a certain percentage of fees will fall. E.g., the ninetieth percentile is the number that divides the distribution of fees into the lower 90% and the upper 10%, or that fee level instead of the 99th. The admissions council is suing the three for the theft of the test and the misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of trade secrets. Khatchaturian, 24, of La Canada Flintridge, and Iskendarian, 23, of Glendale were sentenced in January to a year in custody for their parts in the scheme. They were also ordered to help Melikyan pay nearly $97,000 in restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the . - City News Service MAN JAILED AFTER NOT PAYING RESTITUTION GLENDALE - A Glendale man has been sentenced to six months in jail for failing to pay nearly $21,000 in restitution to a man he attacked during a business dispute, prosecutors said. Pornthep Tingsuk, 40, was sentenced by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court Judge Suzanne Person after she found he had violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. his probation from a March 1999 conviction for battery against his business partner, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office said. A jury convicted Tingsuk of battery for knocking his 38-year-old business partner to the ground and kicking him in August 1998 outside a restaurant the two owned in the 13200 block of Sherman Way in Van Nuys. Tingsuk was sentenced in April to six months in jail by the same judge, but the jail time was suspended when he appealed the conviction. He remained on three years' probation, though. The judge ordered Tingsuk to begin serving that jail time when he appeared in court Friday for a progress report on the restitution payment. The judge determined he had not paid any restitution. - City News Service |
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