White Plains Tutor Admits to Falsely Billing $2.3M in Federal Funds

Michael Logan, the former Testquest Services, is scheduled for sentencing in federal court on Oct. 9 after he pleaded guilty to billing more than $2.3 million in false tutoring services to the federal government.

Logan, a 48-year-old White Plains resident, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and the U.S. Department of Education in White Plains Wednesday.

Testquest is a company that provides tutoring services to New York City public school children as part of a federally funded program. Logan admitted to falsely submitting claims for payment for tutoring services that were never actually provided.

“The federal government devotes important resources to a program intended to benefit students in need, and not intended to be manipulated by people like Michael Logan for their own benefit,” Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Sourthen District of New York said. “”To make matters worse, rather than focusing on the instruction of children, Logan focused on instructing witnesses to lie. With his guilty plea today, he will now face the consequences of his shameful exploitation of this vitally important program.”

Logan was responsible for managing the tutoring programs at the Monroe Academy of Business and Law/High School of World Cultures  and the Global Enterprise Academy/Christopher Columbus High School. From 2005 to 2012, Logan made students sign up for tutoring classes they had not attended. He also encouraged other Testquest employees to lie, even after he found out that there was a federal investigation.