Gollin Double Dips at Taxpayers' Expense

[WilliamW]

Is George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) the Max Bialystock of higher education?

The acquisitive Bialystock character in Mel Brooks' movie The Producers preyed on unsuspecting elderly widows to raise more money than he needed to produce a surefire Broadway flop.

George Gollin is raising money to produce a surefire flop of a self-promoting fairy tale book. So far he's gotten paid at least twice for promising to write one (as yet unfinished) book.

Paid once by the unsuspecting Guggenheim Foundation. Then paid again by unsuspecting Illinois taxpayers, who sent him on a half year "sabbatical" with FULL PAY to write the very same book.

Gollin, a science teacher, claims to be an expert in college accreditation despite having no formal education in the subject. Gollin recently was sued for his alleged role in a scheme to extort payments in exchange for accreditation of an African medical school. But Gollin's book is supposed to be his version of his role in destroying another African college under strikingly similar circumstances.

How many other unsuspecting victims of George "Double Dip" Gollin are there out there?