Ashland School of Business at Denver State University

Davy pleads guilty, wants to leave New Zealand.

 

Discussed again today in New Zealand parliament: SCP HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 22 May.

Quite amusing -- Members of Parliament insulting each other, and an exasperated Speaker.

 

John Davy sent to prison for eight months.

A surprising verdict, since the general expectation was that he would simply be deported.

Snippet:

• John Davy, the man hired as chief executive of the Maori Television Service (MTS) and fired six weeks later for fraud, was jailed for eight months today.
  
  Davy appeared in Auckland District Court for sentencing after admitting he lied about his qualifications on the resume he supplied with his application to work for MTS.
  
  Davy appeared shocked as the sentence was handed down in the Auckland District Court.

 

I, for one, am glad. It underscores the fact that misrepresenting academic credentials is no laughing matter, and any and all claims in that regard must be verifiable.

 

The speed of the NZ justice system is amazing. In the space of just one month, Davy was fired, charged with fraud, and convicted. I presume that he is now in prison, and finally providing a legitimate service to some of the New Zealanders.

In the words of "his" song, Red Rubber Ball:

• ...
  The roller coaster ride we took is
  nearly at an end.
  I bought my ticket with my tears,
  that's all I'm gonna spend.
  
  And I think it's gonna be all right.
  Yeah, the worst is over now,
  The morning sun is shining like a Red Rubber Ball.

 

Jailed Davy being chased for $80,000.
Davy to appeal 'manifestly excessive' jail term.

Davy is indeed already in jail serving his sentence, and reportedly going through "serious anguish and shock." He is expected to serve 4 months (of the 8 month sentence) and then be deported.

This treatment certainly seems harsh compared to what one could expect in the United States. Here, I believe that one would simply be fired -- unless one was fraudulently claiming to be a physician (or other professional responsible for health or safety).


Note to self: drop Denver State degree from CV before applying for job in New Zealand.

 

Still in jail: Davy denied bail ahead of appeal hearing.

 

Devils advocate

The man HAD an MBA from Denver State University if he claimed one from Harvard or UCLA and he didnt have one then I understand the fuss . The employer has the right to decide who it wants to hire and in my humble opinion should even be able to say Yale Grads only in the job description if they so wanted but he did have the degree he claimed .

 

There is no Denver State University, not even a diploma mill. It's simply a fake school name used by one of the internet businesses offering to print diplomas for a fee.

 

John Davy is having a tough time: Davy in special prison unit after threats from inmates.

Snippet:

• He said the special unit was a "grim place" within the prison. "... In that special unit the lights never get turned off. There is the constant clanging of the plumbing and it is cold. I sit there to interview him for an hour and I am almost cold to the bone."

 

Davy's appeal was heard today, and his sentence reduced to six months: Davy's sentence reduced.

 

Singapore is also a place to avoid if you have a fake degree. Today's Straits Times has an article that mentions one person receiving a 4 month prison term for applying for a job using a fake degree, and a second person who was fined $10,000.

 

Davy rejects lawyer's advice, will not appeal sentence.

 

Weird turn of events: John Davy marries in prison.

 

What's weird? Did he marry Maxine Asher?

I seem to recall that Thomas (James) Kirk (McPherson) married wife number 4 or 5 after his imprisonment for his LaSalle University fraud, and a distant memory is that Ernest Sinclair, one of the first of the diploma mill barons (California Pacifica, Hollywood Southern, Atlantic Southeastern) also married while in federal prison in the mid 70s. There may be a Master's thesis in this topic.

 

Davy farce fatal for recruiters.

The recruiting agency that recommended Davy for the Maori TV position has gone out of business. They were effectively "blacklisted" after being held responsible for the debacle because they failed to check Davy's credentials.

 

I hope that those are shivers running through the headhunting world.

I wonder what happened to the firm that found the School Superintendent for California's second largest district (Alum Rock, in San Jose), who didn't exactly have the Stanford doctorate he'd been using for years.

 

Fraudster heading back to Canada next week - without his wife.

Snippet:

• Jailed fraudster John Davy will leave New Zealand next week but will not take his new wife back to his native Canada. Davy, jailed for conning his way into the chief executive's job at the Maori Television Service (MTS), married his partner Josephine in Auckland's Mt Eden Prison in June but Canadian authorities will not let her into the country.
  ...
  He was believed to be thinking about doing a legitimate Master of Business Administration course -- the qualification he falsely claimed to have had when he applied for the MTS job.
  ...

 

Davy deported after serving fraud sentence.

Snippets:

• He had been released an hour earlier from prison after serving three months of a six-month sentence for fraud. The former head of the Maori Television Service won the job with a fabricated CV which included a fake Master of Business Administration obtained through the internet.
  ...
  Davy admitted his CV was a lie and was sentenced to eight months' prison, reduced to six months after an appeal. He washed pots and made sandwiches in the prison kitchen, according to his wife, Josephine.

 

Deported to Canada and now back in Philippines: Ex-jailbird tries to sell story.

LOL.