Careful What You Say

[Herbert Spencer]

The prosecutor never heard that St Regis offered honorary degrees.  Didn't the guy in charge ever look at the friggin website.  Obviously not.  What ABA accredited school did he fraudulently acquire an education from?

Marc LaBella, who teaches science at Ocean County College, said his name was on the list not because he’d bought a diploma ... but because a friend did so on his behalf, as part of what he described as an “honorary degree” program set up by the company under the St. Regis University name.

“It wasn’t a degree. Someone gave me as a gift an honorary degree from this company and it turns out it was a bogus degree,” said LaBella, who added that he’d spoken with the federal prosecutor on the case about the possibility of testifying in court. (The diploma itself, he said, contained misspellings as well.)

[Bud] Ellis, the prosecutor, said he wasn’t aware of any honorary degree program being run by the company, but he couldn’t deny its existence, either.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/01/diplomas

Robert A. "Bud" Ellis, University of Texas, 1977.