Buyers of bogus degrees named

[Newsjock]

Source: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.)

Hundreds of people working in the military, government and education are on a list of almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill.

The complete list of buyers, which the U.S. Department of Justice has refused to release to the public, has been obtained by The Spokesman-Review.

... Also on the list are William R. Church, a senior military adviser working in the White House, and George Michael Navadel, a U.S. State Department computer systems negotiator, who paid $5,400 for a doctorate in network engineering.

... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, it was learned Monday, is considering pursuing charges against an estimated 300 federal employees who bought bogus or counterfeit degrees.


Read more: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=15898

[hisownpetard]

1. Monica Goodling, Alberto Gonzales, et al?

[Taverner]

21. Goodling definitely

Regent University is no more a school than my sphincter

[hisownpetard]

22. And yours has tighter enrollment, I imagine.

[Crazy Dave]

2. I heard some of those websites really go out of the way

Some even have campus photos, faculty photos, semester schedules, the whole works you'd find on most university websites

[napi21]

4. You aren't saying these people didn't KNOW what they were doing,

are you?

[Crazy Dave]

8. Not at all

It's set up mainly to fool prospective employers or family members, the government, etc. I forgot to add that some even had a phone number to call. I'm not sure where you have to go first, those are just the front. It's more well known now and probably harder to get away with.

[Dangerously Amused]

3. Pretty much everyone who went to Patrick Henry College bought a fake degree.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0421-09.htm

[merwin]

5. Bush got one of those from Harvard, didn't he?

:)

[Wizard777]

7. Yes and then his daddy bought him one from Yale.

There goes the Ivy League. After seeing Bush in action. Suddenly that community college doesn't look so bad.

[barbtries]

18. yale

[Maddy McCall]

6. Wow...I just looked over the list. You can BUY a PhD?

Unbelievable.

And these people are TEACHING??

[redqueen]

9. When did the phony degree industry get started?

When did people stop having to just make stuff up, and instead could buy backed-up lies from a private company?

Hm.

[Crazy Dave]

10. That or....

Why don't they just get some fancy diploma or award type stationary and print up their own stuff? I should make myself some nice and fancy diplomas for every type of job out there. A medical diploma, a business diploma, etc.

[Ikonoklast]

12. I didn't spend six hours photoshopping my diploma just to be called 'Mr.'

You can address me as 'DOCTOR' Phony, thankyouverymuch.

[Crazy Dave]

13. Most of the time we have to tell our doctors what's wrong with us anyways

So why not get paid like one?:shrug:

[SomeGuyInEagan]

17. Nice ... while you're at it, dummy up some CEUs for Photoshop

Oh, go ahead and make it a degree. You've earned it (through your "life experience").

[diddlysquat]

19. LOL

[NashVegas]

28. When You Started Needing an MBA to Work in the Mail Room

[redqueen]

29. Are they so cheap that those aspiring to work in the mail room can afford them?

I wouldn't think so... but... ?

[madrchsod]

11. in 2006 the feds found government employees

were using st regis university and other mills......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Regis_University

[burythehatchet]

14. Ah, Saint Regis, and its' sister college Saint Kathi Lee

[zelda7743]

32. Well, good heavens

I'm glad that wikipedia made the distinction between this diploma mill and the actual Regis University in Denver, from which I will receive my MBA next month. I've worked too damn hard on the thing to be accused of buying it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. This may explain a whole lot...

fake degrees, inexperienced youth put in charge of whole organizations.
then again, since Bush is pretty much a poster child for BS, why should the WH care about all the BS people they hired?
Please tell me Regent Collage is not credentialed.

[KoKo]

23. 300 of them in Department of Homeland Security...

Amazing.

[KansDem]

16. Wow!!! $5,400 for a PhD? That's cheap!

I paid considerably more for mine, but was unable to find a career in my field, so now I'm working a podunkesque job while paying off my student loans.

[Stand and Fight]

20. Good, good, good, good!

Bust all of the limey bastards.

[libnnc]

24. As someone who has worked her ass off

for the past 6 years to earn her B.A. and now her M.A. from UNC-Greensboro (Cum Laude)....


THIS PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF.

[tpsbmam]

25. Ditto.....a total of 9 years for BS through Ph.D. ......

And every time I was hired, the Ph.D. degree was checked. How pathetic that our government doesn't bother to do that. Not surprising, but pathetic.

[libnnc]

26. and I'll be spending the next 20 years paying this shit off too

:steamingmad:

:nuke:

[superconnected]

27. This explains everything. Katrina, and everything.

[flashl]

30. In D.C., they have these degree sweeps about every ten years, its always the same, surprise & shock.

[superconnected]

31. Here's the list - it lists people from all over the world who got fake degrees/HS diplomas

from many different US diploma mill schools.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/data/diploma-mill/

[entanglement]

33. Counterfeit high school diplomas?

:wtf: