City Council candidate with 1956 LaSalle degree

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  1. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    Council hopeful has colorful past

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    • A native of Pittsburgh, Aiello says he served in the Air Force during the Korean War, and in 1956 received a law degree from LaSalle School of Law in Chicago.

      Aiello says his degree later was stolen and that he could not get a duplicate because the school no longer exists.

      Officials with the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association say they are not familiar with the school.

      However, there are various newspaper stories that refer to LaSalle as a correspondence school, and Aiello notes that he is not a lawyer, but that he needed a bachelor of law degree to work for a Senate subcommittee that was investigating organized crime.
    This LaSalle was a correspondence school in Chicago -- predates the James Kirk diploma mill.

    This person is certainly an interesting character for many other reasons!
     
  2. David Boyd

    David Boyd New Member

    LaSalle (Chicago) operated a California Bar qualified law program for many decades. I believed they ceased operations sometime in the early 1980's.

    I recember their ads on matchbook covers when I was a kid.
     
  3. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    If he graduated from the law program, he got a diploma, not a degree. That diploma did permit graduates to sit for the California Bar. The school itself was accredited by the National Home Study Council (now the DETC).

    Nothing suspicious there, except for claiming to have a degree.
     
  4. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Are you sure, Rich? My recollection is that they granted an LL.B. (Bachelor of Law) which was California bar qualifying for quite a few years. For their last decade or so, they were a division of a major publishing company, Macmillan, which continued to maintain their records for a while but, I believe, no longer.
     
  5. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    La Salle Extension University
    417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois 60605

    Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Social Studies, which can be earned entirely by correspondence study. Also a correspondence course in law for California residents only. Established in 1908, La Salle has for many years been a subsidiary of the Macmillan Publishing Company. It has well over 100,000 students, most of them in non-degree or Associate's degree courses. Tuition is around $4,000 for those starting from Scractch. Up to 75% of the coursework and the fees may be waived for work done elsewhere, but only at "recognized schools. The law diploma (not a degree) requires four years of study, and entitles the holder to take the California bar exam, but not in any other state.
    (Emphasis added.)

    Bear's Guide, 7th Edition

    I usually get the old stuff right. ;)
     

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