Timeline for If someone falsely claims to have a Ph.D. on the jacket of a book and they profit from that claim, is that criminal fraud?
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| 10 hours ago | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | @jwenting of course it is. But the detractors are technically correct, the rules are that the title is applicable only after the certificate is received, so the state cannot just ignore it after receiving s complaint. This will have no legal consequence, but the damage to Keller's reputation is done which I agree with you was the point. | |
| 12 hours ago | comment | added | jwenting | @EikePierstorff that sounds more like a political witch hunt than anything else to me. If he graduated and put that title on his resume before he got the official paperwork in the mail he had the title as far as pretty much every reasonable person is concerned. When I graduated myself I got a piece of paper signed by the responsible people, the nicely embossed diploma took a week or so. Didn't mean I wasn't a graduate. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | There is currently an investigation against the new head of the department of economic affairs in the state of Brandenburg, Daniel Keller, who has actually finished his bachelor degree, but used the title in a CV published on his website before he received the certificate from his university. Apparently we take this law really seriously here in Germany. | |
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