MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Saturday, October 20, 1990
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A former assistant director of financial aid at Ramapo College of New Jersey and her husband were arrested Friday, accused of defrauding the college of $3,410 in financial aid grants.
Gloria and John Prentzel of Greenwood Lake, N.Y., were released on their own recognizance after arraignment before Judge Marguerite T. Simon in Superior Court in Hackensack. Prentzel was charged with theft by deception; his wife was charged with assisting a theft.
Detective Sgt. Fred Landsky of the state police Official Corruption Unit said he investigated the couple after a routine audit of the financial aid office by the Mahwah college showed that Mrs. Prentzel, 31, had approved a fraudulent financial aid application in the summer of 1989 by John Prentzel, 27, who was her fiance at the time.
Landsky said she approved the application despite knowing that her fiance listed a New Jersey address to lower his tuition fees, lied when he said he was a full-time student, and had annual income that made him ineligible for financial aid.
Landsky said Mrs. Prentzel resigned from her position at the college in September.
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