YALE UNIVERSITY FAKE DEGREE LAWSUIT CONTINUES
A federal judge in Connecticut has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Yale University wrongly confirmed a fake doctorate degree that resulted in a South Korean University losing tens of millions o
f dollars and damaging its reputation.
In their 2008 lawsuit, Buddhist-affiliated Dongguk University in Seoul claims that it hired art history professor Shin Jeong-ah after Yale University wrongly confirmed she had earned her doctorate there.
Ms. Jeong-ah went on to have a scandalous affair with Byeon Yang-kyoon, an aide to South Korea’s then president President Roh Moo-hyun.
Ms. Shin was sentenced to 18 months in a South Korean jail in March 2008 for using fake Yale credentials to get her teaching position at Dongguk and for embezzling museum funds. It is alleged that she also faked two degrees from the University of Kansas to obtain a former job in 2005.
Yang-kyoon was accused of using his influence to get Shin hired by Dongguk and was forced to step down from his aide position because of the scandal.
Dongguk is suing Yale for more than $50 million, claiming it lost that amount in government grants, alumni donations and costs of building a law school the government later refused to approve because of the scandal.
10 OF THE BEST MOVIE KISSES OF ALL TIME!
- Spiderman (2002) the upside-down in-the-rain kiss
- Lady and the Tramp (1955) the spaghetti kiss
- Ghost (1990)
- Princess Bride (1987)
- Gone With The Wind (1939)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)
- Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Titanic (1997)
SMOOCHING STATISTICS
Number of calories you burn by kissing for one minute: 26
A passionate kiss uses 34 facial muscles…a simple peck uses 2
Percent of people keep their eyes closed while kissing: 66
According to U.S. statistics, an American woman will kiss 80 men before she gets married
Men who kiss their wives goodbye before going to work live five years longer than those who don’t
Smooching passionately for 90 seconds elevates your blood pressure, causes your pulse rate to race, & increases levels of hormones in the blood thus reducing life by one minute
The bodies of those engaged in kissing produce a substance that is 200 times more powerful than morphine in terms of narcotic effect
The average person spends 20,160 minutes (two straight weeks!) of their life on kissing
Two-thirds of kissers tilt their heads to the right
Couples exchange between 10 million to a billion bacteria during mouth-to-mouth kissing
Most people can remember their first kiss with 90% accuracy
The German language has 30 words to describe different kinds of kisses
SO CHEESY! DOMINOS PIZZA IN TROUBLE…
The Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza will continue on after a Maryland federal court denied Domino’s motion to dismiss the case.
The federal lawsuit alleges that Domino’s Pizza conducted background checks on Applicants that did not comply with the legal requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The lawsuit claims that Domino’s ran background checks without proper authorization, and “systematically” failed to provide copies of background checks to individuals prior to taking adverse employment actions against them. The suit further alleges that Plaintiffs had to sign consent forms that contained extraneous information, and which were not separate documents within the application packet.
Under the FCRA, employers must provide certain information to consumers before taking any adverse action against them, such as not hiring them or terminating them if their background check is completed after hiring. The FCRA also requires providing a copy of the background check report to the consumer as well as providing a statement of their rights prepared by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces the FCRA. The FCRA further mandates that disclosures must be “standalone” documents and do not contain extraneous information that could confuse or distract the consumer.
Stay tuned for further developments as the case continues…
THOU SHALL NOT STEAL…
Anita Collins, a 67 year old employee in the finance office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has been charged with siphoning $1 million in donations. Ms. Collins was arraigned last week on charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records and faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted.
Church and law enforcement officials report that over a seven year time span, Collins created fake invoices, sending them to the archdiocese and then issuing checks to accounts she controlled. All of the some 450 checks were in amounts just below the $2,500 threshold that would have required a supervisor’s approval.
The archdiocese reported that it did not conduct a criminal background check on Ms. Collins when she was hired in 2003. If they had, they would have learned that Ms. Collins had previously plead guilty to criminal charges in fraud schemes at other New York employers in 1986 and 1999.
The archdiocese says it now conducts criminal background checks on all employees.
Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-bookkeeper-charged-with-stealing-1-million.html
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