Ne’er-do-well grandson admits stealing $679,000 from his own grandparents for phony college tuition payments — he pretended to be attending Oxford
A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to ripping off his own grandparents to the tune of $679,000, preying on their interest in paying for him to go to college but pocketing the tuition payments instead and never going to class.
Douglas Senerth, 32, of South Windsor, had convinced his grandparents that he was attending Assumption College in Massachusetts and later Oxford University in England for which they agreed to pay his tuition, prosecutors said. One forged letter claimed that Senerth was “a good standing student at Assumption College for a little over three years now and that he had made the Dean’s List every single semester,” according to court papers.