NILES, Ill. – Two Illinois men were living the high life with luxury cars, expensive homes and diamond jewelry purchased with money they allegedly scammed from hundreds of schools across 19 states.

Jowhar Soultanali, 58, and his son Kabir Kassam, 34, allegedly bilked about $33 million from more than 200 schools through virtual tutoring companies based in Niles, Illinois.

The companies – Brilliance Academy, Inc. and Babbage Net School, Inc. – contracted to provide tutoring services to schools in Illinois, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years, the Niles Patch reports.

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Federal authorities contend Soultanali and Kassam rigged a computer program to ensure that student test scores always improved, and that the two bribed school officials to direct federal funds their way through school contracts.

“As part of the fraud scheme, the defendants also allegedly engaged in fraudulent billing, including inflated invoices based on false attendance records, spreadsheets, and a computer program that contained false tutoring time summaries,” according to the news site.

Soultanali faces five counts of mail fraud and three counts of bribery. His son faces five counts of mail fraud and two counts of bribery. Authorities allege the two kept between $8 million and $13.6 million generated by the scam for themselves.

Others indicted in the case include “Arturo Martinez, 52, of New Mexico, who was an educational administrator at the New Mexico Education Department; Cedric Peterson, 61, of San Antonio, Texas, who was the assistant principal at Fox Tech High School; Armando Rodriguez, 54, off Corpus Christi, Texas, who was the SES coordinator at Miller High School; and Brian Harris, 33, of San Antonio, Texas, who was the SES coordinator at Sam Houston High School,” the Niles Patch reports.

The U.S. Attorney alleges Peterson went on a Caribbean cruise vacation with a little help from the school contractors, while Martinez received meals and services at a gentleman’s club.

Federal authorities want the two men to forfeit more than $33 million and their residences, three condos, five luxury vehicles, six life insurance policies and diamond jewelry purchased in 2009, according to the news site.