State of Hawaii Sues Marlborough University

The State of Hawaii, by its Office of Consumer Protection, filed suit today against Charles James dba Marlborough University. The suit alleges that Mr. James violated various provisions in Hawaii's Unaccredited Degree Granting Institutions Law (Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 446E)and seeks injunctive relief, restitution, civil penalties and other equitable relief.

Jeffrey E. Brunton
Staff Attorney
Office of Consumer Protection
State of Hawaii

 

Well Done Hawaii.
About time !!!

CFr

 

Good news.

If we could clone Attorney Brunton and implant the results in California, Montana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Florida, St. Kitts, Switzerland, Portugal, and a few dozen other places, the world as we know it would, I think, be a better place.

 

Yes, I'll get on that right away.

L. Mitchell Weinberg, M.D.
United American Medical College

P.S. Is it "Kepler" or "Keppler"? I always get that wrong.

 

Lest the moderators consider an "Inside Joke" forum, let me hasten to point out that one of the first people the FBI went after with DipScam back in 1980 was "Dr." Weinberg and his two fake medical schools -- United American in Louisiana and Keppler in Canada.

After Weinberg served time in federal prison, he became affiliated in some fashion with a quite legal British school that, heaven forfend, teaches surgery by mail: the SMAE Institute in (truly) Maidenhead, Berkshire.

This was discussed in some detail on AED years ago, and Marshall Rice pointed out that it seems to be quite legal to teach surgery by mail. Ostensibly it is focused on things like removing corns, but not restricted so suchlike.

 

1. I didn't see it.
2. I didn't take part in it.
3. I'm dead.

Rt Reverend George C. Lyon, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., D.D.

Sorry about the inside jokes; been doin' this too long. Lyon operated the quite infamous Thomas Edison College from Florida and later Arkansas before he got shut down. A diploma mill, it is wondered if people confused it with the legitimate TESC. Lyon may or may not have been involved in the medical degree mill described above. He kept getting fined in Florida, promising to stop awarding degrees until the state licensed the school--which it never did. He finally left Florida when it looked like they were going to get serious--sound familiar? Anyway, he went to Arkansas, got written up in the paper announcing his school's opening there, and got busted by DipScam. He ran his own version of the Episcopal Church, putting this and other shady deals under it. But it didn't help.

Thomas Edison was listed as an unaccredited school in Lovejoy's for years, back when that book was actually used. Lovejoy's listed quite a few unaccredited schools, but it was shameful that they would list this diploma mill. When I worked for Xerox, it was the reference book they used. If a school was in Lovejoy's, they'd pay tuition reimbursement.

There's more, but that will have to wait. (Another inside joke, I guess. )

 

Rich,

When you worked for Xerox, did the company sell any type of software for printing professional looking diplomas. With all the degree mills in existence I've been thinking about getting into the software business, perhaps selling diploma software to degree mills. I think there is a real market for this type software, don't you?

Russell