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Emerson, who founded the college in 1880, was an intensely religious man who lived by a strict diet of his own invention. The shrewd and quirky Emerson was a "doctor" who got his "medical" degree from a mail order diploma mill for $25 in 1879, according to Emerson historian and former professor John Coffee. Emerson felt he needed the degree to seem prestigious enough to found his own school. Interesting side note: the college library's Web site lists Emerson as "Dr." claiming he attended medical school in Philadelphia. The library's Executive Director Robert Fleming compiled the dubious timeline when he served as college archivist. Fleming said he stands by his statement that Emerson studied medicine and vagued up the details on whether he actually graduated. "Bottom line, given the nature of the institution from which he received his M.D. degree, let's just be happy that he founded an institution of higher education and not a hospital!" Fleming wrote in an e-mail to The Beacon.
North Central Washington newspaper
England was fired last November after a leaving a prank message on the wrong phone about owning a lot of pistols. Harum since accused him of using a fake diploma to receive higher pay and bypassing a gun-buying waiting period by claiming he was still an officer.
Kyiv Post. Independence. Community. Trust - Nation
Fake university diplomas, drivers licenses and health certificates are becoming common in Ukraine. Getting caught is still the exception, not the rule. Everything is for sale in Ukraine, or so it seems, even privileges that are supposed to be earned: University diplomas, health certificates, drivers licenses.The dishonor roll of people who have claimed bogus degrees or false credentials is gaining nationwide attention as more high-level officials get caught. The scandals have prompted the Interior Ministry to announce it will conduct a broader review of the backgrounds of top-ranking officials, although such a probe has not been started yet. So far, the list of those caught with phony credentials or bogus resumes includes: Andriy Kyslynsky, former presidential aide and deputy head of the State Security Service; Volodymyr Dodatok, a Simferopol city official; and Roman Zvarych, former justice minister. Questions were also raised about the authenticity of presidential candidate Victor Yanukovych’s educational credentials, although one of his allies called the accusation “stupid.”
Omaha.com - The Omaha World-Herald: Metro/Region
A 36-year-old Omaha woman is accused of stealing about $14,000 from the Omaha Housing Authority by submitting a forged document. The woman was arrested Wednesday by police on suspicion of felony theft by deception after an OHA investigation indicated that she altered another woman's GED diploma and submitted it as her own to complete a family self-sufficiency program. George Achola, OHA's attorney, said obtaining the diploma is the last step in the program. OHA officials received a tip from another tenant about the altered diploma. Achola said money is put into escrow for participants of the program, which includes cleaning up credit histories, getting employment and not being late on rent payments. Upon completion, participants are given the money to be used as a down payment on a home. Achola said the goal is to help people make the transition from being renters to being good homeowners. The amount of money issued to program participants ranges from a few thousand to $20,000, Achola said. The woman received $13,924 in late September but had not yet used the money to buy a house. According to a police report, the woman paid $2,000 for the diploma that she submitted.
Holy crap! She could have purchased two Doctorate degrees from Suffield University for that much!
Suffield University, buy now! https://suffielduniversity.org/suffield/payment.php
APP.com | Asbury Park Press
Teacher consultant Lorraine Taddei-Graef has appealed the district school board's decision to reduce her salary and ban her from using or making reference to her doctorate degree from Breyer State University, an unaccredited online school that has been labeled a diploma mill. Doing so was not only "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," but also violated her tenure rights, according to a petition submitted by attorney Stephen B. Hunter in January. ... Taddei-Graef had been entitled to annual increases of $2,500 after she
earned her doctorate. She was informed in December that her salary
would be reduced by $1,500 and be based on a master's degree level,
according to her appeal.
Titles earned from diploma mills are illegal to use in the State of NJ, but they want their pay back? You've got to be effing kidding me.
Dongguk
Shin Jeong-ah, who became a professor at Dongguk University thanks to a fake diploma from Yale University, may be fading from the public's memory. She remains in prison after being sentenced to a year and six months in confinement last year. However, the two universities are still battling over the "mistake" the American university made when Dongguk requested verification of the authenticity of Shin's Ph.D. from the Ivy-league school. Dongguk sued Yale last year, alleging the mistake had significantly damaged its reputation. The Korean school is scheduled to hold a media conference today to announce its stance on the lingering legal battle. Dongguk is seeking $50 million in compensation.
Ennahar Online
Many victims have paid large sums of money to, either purchase a home, have a job or get an exemption card of national service. Young people have paid cash on fingernail 50 Million cents to a false senior officer in the army for the famous "yellow card". Some of these false senior officers also use this means to get married in the province of Tlemcen, where the gendarmerie national group arrested a false gendarmerie commander in special border police who wanted to convince the family of his fiancee to marry him, since many families dream of marrying their daughters to military officers. According to a report prepared by the communication unit of the command of the gendarmerie, of which Ennahar holds a copy, the phenomenon of false professional identities is in full growth in the society. This is encouraged by citizens, victims of unscrupulous people for whom all means are justified to achieve their nefarious plans.
