James Monroe announces it has flushed itself down the you-know what

From those Seborga-certified folks at James Monroe International Goatbag:

You might ask what caused them to yank their own chain, finally, at long last. The last straw might be a cease-and-desist letter from an Ivy League school whose online materials the oh-so-brazen SRU group had displayed in a frame on the JMU site.

If you are new to all this, you might ask if the problem is administrative confusion in the Liberian government.

The real problem, actually, is that most of the servers holding web sites for the whole Saint Regis constellation went riding off into the morning in the trunks of various police cars on August 11. The facility that prints diplomas was raided August 11. The affidavit describing financial transactions through various off-shore banks became public August 11. The collaboration of Richard Novak, Dixie Randock, Steve Randock, Abdulah Dunbar, Heidi Lorhan, Blake Carlson, Amy Hensley, and John Dovelos (as well as those cool folks at Canyon College and Breyer State) to do all sorts of things was made very public August 11.

They didn't see it coming. Novak didn't see it coming.

The affidavit says that Novalk told three undercover United States Secret Service agents that "no law enforcement authorities have ever attempted to investigate “the Board” or their involvement with SRU/JMU/etc. When questioned about the income tax implications of running one of these “schools”, Novak stated that it is important to devise a method of “beating” the IRS. He advised that foreign bank accounts are a good method for processing and holding payment funds as collected from “students” via credit card and “PayPal” accounts."

He said that to three federal agents with guns and badges who were filming the meeting.

Now all they can do is hang out in Intenet cafes, sending obscene messages to children while waiting for the Big Hammer.

 

Miranda pages taken from University of Phoenix

James Monroe Internatoinal Goatbag is not the only yowie-wowie taking material from the sites of real schools.

The Miranda International "University" page describing "privacy" issues is taken from a University of Phoenix page.

The MIU webmistress is getting sloppy: take a look at http://www.miu-edu.org/privacy.html.htm and you'll see the following... "...as well as information about their interest in the University of Phoenix."

Compare with this Phoenix page: http://www.phoenix.edu/privacy.html

You can even see what happened: someone (a blond woman born in 1950, perhaps?) did a Save As... with her browser, and had the .htm suffix appended after the existing .html filename extension.

I believe the Phoneix lawyers sent their own C&D letter (the MIU site was down for a few days a couple of weeks ago), but MIU bounced right back.

That's as dumb as bragging to the feds about ways to beat the IRS.

 

Re: Miranda pages taken from University of Phoenix

That isn't the only bit they nicked. Compare this MIU page with this one from Youngstown State University.

They didn't even change the reference to WCBA (Williamson College of Business Administration). although there are a few slight changes. (Different version/draft perhaps).

Other pages have been adapted from there too.

And the mission statement page, has been adapted from Kaplan's .

One of the entries in the mission statement is

I wonder how MIU is going to do that?

 

offshore banking, and so forth

The affidavit indicates that the SRU group is knowledgeable about offshore banking techniques. Maybe that's what MIU offers as part of its curriculum?

(Oh, yeah, for the lurker who's reading this while drinking a decafe latte: notice the absence of an apostrophe in the word "its" in the previous sentence.)

 

fibs

Before it swallowed itself whole, the JMIU home page said this, in eensy-weensy print at the bottom of the page:

Compare this with text in section 96 of the SRU affidavit:

The "board" ain't a bunch of folks living abroad, you betcha!

 

University Services also goes down the you-know-what

Have you always wanted to start your own online degree-granting entity?

If so, you're out of luck! The roll-your-own kit fom University Services does not seem to be available anymore since university-services.net has gone the way of JMIU: poof, no more.

BUT "Are You as Smart as a College Graduate?" If so, well, good for you! http://advancedu.org/ still exclaims that "...you CAN get a FULLY ACCREDITED DEGREE based on what you have already learned through EXPERIENCE without taking courses or classes!" They are experienced, having been at it since cooking up "Holy Acclaim University" and "A+ Technical Institute" in 1999!

Wanna get acreditation for your diploma mill? Rats, can't do it anymore since the National Board of Education rode away in the trunk of a police car.

Cheers,
G

 

I love this from the ASK ED message board:

Q. Ed, I have seen lists at government websites that label a mixture of distance schools in the US and many other countries as "degree mills". I assume because it is a government website that these lists are well researched and accurate. Right? John B.

A. Hi John. If you are referring to the Oregon ODA list my answer is an emphatic NO! That list (there are others just as bad) was created by a hostile State employee who publicly admits he does no research but instead relies on "tips" from chat rooms and friends who are not distance education experts. Amazing? Shocking? True? YES! This Oregon employee has been sued many times and has yet to win.

There are better ways to check on any school's legitimacy and the best way begins with checking with the proper authority of the country in which the school is located. For example, if the school is in France check with the French Education Ministry. No one in Oregon will be able (or apparently willing) to provide you with any reliable information on all schools in the world and in fact they have publicly admitted they do not research but instead depend on "tips" from chat rooms.. Reading posts at chat rooms and discussion boards is also unreliable and rife with misinformation and ridiculous opinions. Checking on your own with the proper authority is always best! ED

Cheers,

George

 

Blake Carlson’s Use of E-mail...

...is the heading before section 124 of the seach warrant affidavit. Here are sections 124 - 132:

 

Panama Canal Goatbag is slushed too

Panama Canal "University" has also dropped itslef down the oubliette, but without even saying goodbye.

In case you hadn't noticed, there are a whole lot of other SRU group sites living on a Five Star Communications server with IP address 209.124.83.218. Take a look at www.universityservicebank.com, for example, before somebody drop-kicks it into the trash:

We know where the AEIT money goes, don't we?

 

It was a disease...

...that caused the SRU group entities to close, it would seem. From the ICFHE web site:

"You will receive the Membership Certificate and Membership Plague."

They went the way of the Martians in War of the Worlds, no doubt.

 

Re: It was a disease...

A membership plague, indeed. My, my.