JACKSON, Miss.   – An organization suspended from bringing foreign exchange students to the U.S. was hounded in recent years by allegations of mismanagement, with complaints ranging from sexual abuse by host fathers to urging a host family to lie about company mistakes, an Associated Press review shows. San Diego-based Pacific Intercultural Exchange, or PIE, is…
About four months after being defrocked by the Diocese of Camden in 2002, Thomas Harkins had a new job as a security officer, including patting down passengers, with the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport. The TSA hired the former priest before completing a background check, the agency recently confirmed. According to a church…
With scandals such as the Penn State sex abuse case not far in the rearview mirror, the township committee is working to draft a tighter version of an ordinance for mandatory background checks of recreation employees and volunteers. The first reading of the ordinance was tabled Thursday night after Committeewoman Denice DiCarlo expressed several concerns…
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: Last month, R Nandan, a 33-year-old employee of IBM, was discovered to have used his wife’s academic credentials to get his Rs 24-lakh-a-year job, putting the spotlight on rampant resume fraud faced by India’s $100-billion information technology services sector. Had it not been for falling out with his wife, Nandan’s fraud may…
Apply for a job and there’s a good chance that potential employer will do a background check on you. Most U.S. employers (about 70 percent) conduct criminal background checks for all potential employees. According to a new report from the National Consumer Law Center, the information provided by background screening companies is often wrong in…
Online dating is getting a little bit safer now that three major sites, Match.com, eHarmony and Spark Networks (the operator of JDate and Christian Mingle) have agreed to join forces with California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris to protect members by running background checks on prospective subscribers. While some of the dating sites have already…
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…
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…
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