Hopefully this will be an example to all those corrupt professors responsible for NCAA football cheating.

Our friend Otherwise called this one to my attention.

Former UNC professor charged

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A former professor at the center of an academic scandal involving athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been charged with a felony, accused of receiving $12,000 in payment for a lecture course in which he held no classes.

A grand jury on Monday indicted Julius Nyang’Oro with a single felony count of obtaining property by false pretenses.

Nyang’Oro was chairman of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. He resigned from that post in 2011 during a campus investigation that found certain classes in the department that instructors did not teach, undocumented grade changes and faked faculty signatures on some grade reports.

Sweet. I’m glad to see somebody bringing the hammer down on dishonesty among academics. Are you kidding me? $12,000?! I hope he spends the rest of life in prison.

The best part is that this particular anti-corruption hardliner prosecutor went after the big dogs. Take former football coach Butch Davis, on whose watch the whole scandal happened, and who was removed of his job and forced to accept a paltry buyout of somewhere in the vicinity of $2.7 million – Orange County District Attorney James Woodall has charged him with … ummm, hold on a second. … Gimme a sec – it has to be here somewhere. … Uhhh, okay, I’m looking at the article and thinking it has to be here somewhere, right? I mean, if we’re going to fuck up academic fraudsters who are responsible for trashing a school’s rep and profiting from it, surely you go after the guy who gets $2.7M before you do the guy who sneaks off with $12K, right?

Hunh. Baffled here. I need to go do some more research. I mean, I’m certain that an anti-corruption crusader wouldn’t overlook something this big.

I’ll get back to you.