Rossi’s Engineering School Shut Down for Fraud
Contributed by S.D. Simonson
Even the school – Kensington University, California (USA) – where “Energy Catalyzer” inventor Andrea Rossi obtained his chemical engineering degree was shut down for fraud.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_University
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The school was founded in 1976 by Alfred Calabro in Glendale, California, as a “no fat, no bull” correspondence school. The university was housed entirely in a Glendale office that also contained Calabro’s law practice. Kensington awarded bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in a wide range of fields. California regulators said that Kensington handed out degrees “which may have little, if any, academic value” and perpetrated a “fraud on the public”. State investigators found that the school awarded doctoral degrees after as little as four months’ work which consisted of reading magazine articles. Following a protracted legal battle, Kensington University was ordered shut down by the California courts in 1996, and the school shifted its operations to Oahu, Hawaii, where it was shut down by court order in Hawaii in 2003.
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I notice Kim Il-Sung from North Korea received his degree from there also.
While I would like to believe Rossi’s claims about LENR and his E-Cat’s heat/energy gains, sometimes the air of fraud follows one around like the cloud of dust surrounding Pig Pen in the Charlie Brown cartoon.
References from Wikipedia:
- “Public Paid for Bogus Degrees: Some Federal Workers Used Diploma Mills, GAO Finds”, Washington Post, May 12, 2004.
- Top Officials Hold Fake Degrees (CBS News)
- Kensington University Faces Closure Hearing (Los Angeles Times)
- State Orders Closure of Area School (Los Angeles Times)
- University Sidesteps Close Order (Los Angeles Times)
- Kensington University
- North Korea: Bowing before Kim Il-Sung’s embalmed corpse at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace
- Institutions Whose Degrees are Illegal to Use in Texas
