WILLIAMSPORT — A Chinese national with degrees from Penn State and Cornell is likely to be deported after pleading guilty in a nationwide computer hacking scam that cost victims some $10 million.

Hanlin Yang, 25, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. Middle District Court to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

His role as described in court was as a courier collecting $331,000 from six victims in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The money was turned over to a coordinator in State College, where he lived, and later was transported to California.

Yang was one of eight charged in a superseding indictment as members of what prosecutors called the “Pennsylvania group.”

The charges cover the period August 2023 until Feb. 22, 2024, with the victims described as mainly elderly or wealthy

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