{"id":3658,"date":"2009-03-05T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T03:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2011-03-19T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:27:52","slug":"echostar-executive-didnt-earn-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/echostar-executive-didnt-earn-college-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar executive didn&#8217;t earn college degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Jackson, president of EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ:SATS), doesn&#8217;t have an engineering degree from Texas Tech, as had been claimed in numerous filings and public relations pieces. The fake degree was also listed in an annual report for ArchosSA, a French maker of portable music and video players.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s explanation? It was a &#8220;clerical&#8221; error.\u00a0 (Over and over? And no one ever noticed? Hardly.)<\/p>\n<p>According to a Bloomberg piece:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EchoStar\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/sats.client.shareholder.com\/management.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a> said Jackson, president of EchoStar Technologies LLC, \u201cearned his degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University,\u201d without being more specific. The company, which sells satellite-television services and equipment, was spun off last year from Dish Network Corp., the second-largest U.S. satellite-TV provider.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson \u201chas never claimed to graduate from Texas Tech,\u201d  Marc Lumpkin, a spokesman for Englewood, Colorado-based EchoStar said in an interview. \u201cThis is an error on our part.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The phony degree was uncovered by Barry Minkow and <a href=\"http:\/\/frauddiscovery.net\">Fraud Discovery Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Jackson, president of EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ:SATS), doesn&#8217;t have an engineering degree from Texas Tech, as had been claimed in numerous filings and public relations pieces. The fake degree was also listed in an annual report for ArchosSA, a French [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditing-regulations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-X0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","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=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}