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Woman who forged petitions for college board seat sentenced

Posted April 30, 2018 7:00 am

The Associated Press

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago woman has entered a diversion program after pleading guilty to charges that she submitted forged signatures to get on a college board of trustees.

According to published reports, 62-year-old Rafath Waheed of Lisle entered the program days after she pleaded guilty to felony counts of forgery and perjury. If she completes the program and isn't convicted of crime within a year, DuPage County prosecutors will vacate her guilty plea and dismiss the charges.

Waheed was arrested in February. At the time, prosecutors said that after she collected signatures on petitions for her to apply as a candidate for the College of DuPage Board of Trustees, she photocopied some of the pages of the petitions to make it appear she'd collected more signatures than she had actually collected.

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