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LA Man Charged after Attempting to Make Copy of the MCAT

A Westwood man has been charged with several federal criminal offenses for copying the Medical College Admissions Test -- commonly called the MCAT -- without permission from the Association of American Medical Colleges, which holds the copyright to the examination.

Kamran Kafi-Tehrani, 23, was named in a criminal information filed yesterday in United States District Court in Los Angeles. Kafi-Tehrani is scheduled to be arraigned on the three-count information on June 19. Kafi-Tehrani has agreed to plead guilty to all three counts of the information.

The information charges Kafi-Tehrani with three felony charges: misuse of a means of identification to violate federal law, misuse of a passport and criminal copyright infringement. The total statutory maximum sentence for these three offenses is 26 years.

According to the criminal information, on August 2, 2005, Kafi-Tehrani registered to take the MCAT. But, when he registered, he used the name of a former acquaintance, as well as a bogus

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