another article about Joe Cafasso

It's entitled Background Checks – A Vital Part of the Hiring Process, dated 4/24/2006, by Tara Roberts. She talks about what a common thing it is to pad your resume, and how employers need to look into their perspective employees to foretell them of possible legal problems they might be opening themselves up for down the road.

Even checking whether a job applicant actually earned all those degrees can be tricky. Colleges and universities can verify whether an applicant earned a degree, and even provide when it was earned, but typically nothing more – no grades or grade point average, or other accolades.

Either people don't bother to check his phd's and phony claims, or they're victims of policies that won't even reveal the truth about alumni.

Military service is similar. With today’s computer capabilities, a military separation document, which outlines service dates, medals awarded and other pertinent information can be forged. Sorting out this type of background, Groves said, can be time consuming.

Sidebar to potential employees – if you do lie on a résumé, don’t do it in Washington. State legislators passed a bill in March 2006 that made it a class C felony to lie, orally or in writing, when trying to get a job, promotion, license or certification, or other employment benefit. Along with a felony conviction, if found guilty offenders could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The new law went into effect in July.

Military Expert: Joseph A. Cafasso – the former Fox News consultant and self-proclaimed lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces was unmasked as a fake in March of 2002 when network executives became suspicious of his war stories. Cafasso had worked at Fox for about four months as a military advisor during the U.S. action in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002. A New York Times report later noted that at one time Cafasso had claimed, along with other apparently false exploits, that he participated in the failed attempt to free Iranian hostages in 1980. An investigation by a private security firm found that the full extent of Pfc. Cafasso's military service was limited to 44 days of boot camp at Fort Dix, N.J., in the summer of 1976.

Well waddya know, he's infamous! aw, Joe, isn't that what you've been looking for all this time?