http://thecouriermail.com.au report. Academic stripped of doctoral title Joel Dullroy, education reporter 06 January 2004 A LECTURER from the University of Southern Queensland has been banned from using the title of Doctor after it was discovered his PhD was purchased from an unaccredited offshore university. William Bittel, an academic in the USQ Faculty of Education, has for 13 years listed in his credentials a doctorate from Pacific Western University. Pacific Western, in Hawaii, sells PhDs for $US5400 ($7100), but is not recognised by the US Government as a legitimate university. etc etc
Somehow I don't think it mattered whether he took his doctorate from the Hawaiian PWU or the Californian one.