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birdwatcherBloomberg -- Using one of his three Sony Corp. Vaio notebooks, Minkow imports data listing executives and their degrees from Hoover’s Inc., a provider of company information.
Minkow finds birthdates in databases at Merlin Information Services, in Kalispell, Montana, and LexisNexis, a unit of London-based Reed Elsevier Plc. The names are then sent through the National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization that verifies educational credentials.
If no record is found, he sends faxes to the school requesting proof that a degree was awarded.
If neither method can verify the claim, he sends an investigator to the registrar’s office to confirm it, he said.
Last week, the University of Michigan confirmed a Minkow claim that Concur Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer S. Steven Singh didn’t earn a bachelor’s degree reported in company filings from 1998 to 2007. Singh said the degree claim was a mistake. The board of directors issued a statement saying it has “complete confidence” in him.
Concur’s shares dropped 20 percent, to $18.20, March 20 when the news was reported.
Minkow finds birthdates in databases at Merlin Information Services, in Kalispell, Montana, and LexisNexis, a unit of London-based Reed Elsevier Plc. The names are then sent through the National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization that verifies educational credentials.
If no record is found, he sends faxes to the school requesting proof that a degree was awarded.
If neither method can verify the claim, he sends an investigator to the registrar’s office to confirm it, he said.
Last week, the University of Michigan confirmed a Minkow claim that Concur Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer S. Steven Singh didn’t earn a bachelor’s degree reported in company filings from 1998 to 2007. Singh said the degree claim was a mistake. The board of directors issued a statement saying it has “complete confidence” in him.
Concur’s shares dropped 20 percent, to $18.20, March 20 when the news was reported.
