Diploma mills cast a shadow over valid distance learning N.Y. third state to question Irondequoit man's online diplomas.
more in the Rochester paper ...and be sure to take a look at the additional information here: Hoyer's Internet Enterprises with url http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1205hoyer.shtml. It is amusing to see that the fake Russian Academy site (www.stateduma.ru), formerly featuring 6Dr. Richard J. Hoyer and noted cosmonaut and professor of ballet 1Dr. Chief Swift Eagle has been dropped down the oubliette. G
From OxPecker's first link above: Do we have any more info on this? Is this Ya'akov Abramovitz or someone else? Is Ya'akov Abramovitz the same person as (or a relative of) the "Jason Abraham" mentioned here? http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/11/mountainview.htm http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/mountainview/031125mountainviewstip.pdf
Long Island paper picks up Richard Hoyer story from AP Newsday, a paper with a circulation of 579,000 covering Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties on Long Island (New York State, east of NY City) picked the story up from the AP: "Upstate online diploma program told to stop business in New York." Here's the URL: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--onlinediplomas1206dec06,0,5680026.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire. G