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"All goes smoothly until a crime syndicate arrives to muscle in on the racket" It's a wonder all such "schools" don't attract attention from gangsters. Would be interesting to attend Yakuza College, Vor v Zakone Institute (Siberia) or Università della Cosa Nostra... or maybe Universidad Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera in Mexico. AKA "El Chapo College." J.
I can see it now - "a degree you can't refuse." IIRC, there was a man who did jail time and ran a degree mill from his jail cell. Think there may be a thread on it here. Yes, this is him... From the degree-mill wiki: "In 2010, it was revealed that Kenneth Shong ran "Carlingford University", a diploma mill, while he was incarcerated at Racine Correctional Institute in Racine, Wisconsin for several crimes, including fraud.[40] The operation was run with addresses in London, England; Mobile, Alabama; and in Green Bay, which turned out to be empty store fronts or PO Boxes." Whole thing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_States J.
A distance school - to put distance between you -- and Federal Custody. Hit "ESCAPE" to log on. :smile: J.
When James Kirk went to federal prison for his phony LaSalle University, he almost immediately opened Edison University run from his prison cell. I wrote about it as an example of "university behind walls."
Reminiscent of Joel Sayres' 1932 novel Rackety-Rax where the New York mob starts its own university to cash in on the huge Saturday crowds, and their Canarsie University ends up playing a comparable school started by Al Capone's Chicago mob for the national championship. There was a movie of it, too, which I'd love to see.
Thanks! Kirk was actually the guy I wanted to write about. I was trying to search out the details and Shong's story just popped up ahead of his. Ay, qué traviesos, both of them, as Abner might say. :smile: J.
It doesn't seem to be available anywhere. What a shame, and what an indictment of perpetual copyright terms.
Hmmm. I didn't find it there. Books and photos and posters, but not the film itself. (It would be great fun to show at the first DegreeInfo National Convention.)
