{"id":3028,"date":"2008-12-03T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T06:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2011-08-14T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T14:57:20","slug":"executives-with-falsified-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/executives-with-falsified-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"More public company executives with falsified credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122826625605674435.html\">the Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of California, Irvine, says a Broadcom Corp. [NASDAQ:BRCM] executive didn&#8217;t earn two academic degrees listed in his corporate biography.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Irvine, Calif., chip maker&#8217;s proxy statements say Vahid Manian, senior vice president of global manufacturing operations, earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and a master&#8217;s degree in business administration from the university.<\/p>\n<p>The university says Mr. Manian studied electrical engineering between 1979 and 1983, but never graduated. &#8220;He did not earn a degree,&#8221; said Cathy Lawhon, a university spokeswoman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aZFhxTWc.X1g\">from Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsemi Corp. [<span>NASDAQ: MSCC]<\/span> Chief Executive Officer James Peterson and Broadcom Corp. Senior Vice President Vahid Manian, who both serve on the board of STEC Inc., claim to have earned degrees that their schools can\u2019t verify.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, who lists degrees from Brigham Young University in government filings, never received them from that school, said Carri Jenkins, a university spokeswoman in Provo, Utah. He did take classes at Brigham Young from 1978 to 1980, Jenkins said.<\/p>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<p>Peterson was awarded an associate\u2019s degree in arts, sciences and general education from Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, in December 1978, said Kyle Martin, registrar of Brigham Young University Idaho. In 2001, Ricks College became Brigham Young University Idaho, which is separate from the school in Utah, he said. As a former junior college, it couldn\u2019t have conferred a higher degree, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not correct,\u201d Peterson said, referring to the information provided by Brigham Young. \u201cI\u2019ll contact them immediately.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are executives number <strong>eleven and twelve <\/strong>to be exposed by Barry Minkow and Fraud Discovery Institute. And there are more to come. I wonder if the executives with phony degrees who are still standing (but not yet exposed) are getting a little nervous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: The University of California, Irvine, says a Broadcom Corp. [NASDAQ:BRCM] executive didn&#8217;t earn two academic degrees listed in his corporate biography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[830,1232,1100,1204,1205,1234,1233],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditing-regulations","category-fraud-news-stories","tag-barry-minkow","tag-broadcom","tag-degree-fraud","tag-james-peterson","tag-microsemi","tag-telegent","tag-vahid-manian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-MQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}