Interesting Article About the Gang
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By Frank Andrews:

George D. Gollin or galanga as he calls himself on degreeinfo, must truly believe we are all very stupid people. His vanity has clouded his judgment and his malignant narcissism is abundantly clear from his many appearances over the last year on TV and in newspapers coining himself as some “distance learning” expert.

Lets take a look at him for a moment. Until August of 2003 he knew nothing about distance learning and admits he began this journey of being a self-appointed crusader against diploma mills after being annoyed by pop-ups on his university computer saying get your degree in 10 days. We all must agree, an admirable cause, we cannot have enough John Bears out there, that’s another story of it’s own. With his primary investigative tool being searching ownerships of web sites and talking to his new friend John Bear as a “hobby.”

George D. Gollin [alias galanga, Sammy Spade or KR] began assembling his war room in 2003. Which includes a large poster that is reminiscent of the mob organizational posters seen in organized crime taskforce offices. This in his way of linking all “diploma mills” to one Gotti type of crime family, as he calls it, “connecting the dots.” It appears he views himself as some sort of Elliot Ness against diploma mills. His white unkempt shirt and open collar make him look more like a student who slept in his car, than a physics professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

I’ll have to admit, after seeing George Gollin writing all of his vast print about Hoyer and no less than six newspaper articles he was instrumental in, I was beginning to think this Richard Hoyer character was some kind of John Herbert Dillinger of diploma mills. Then I saw Hoyer’s “Stalking in the Guise of Academic Freedom” ditty and decided to check them both out.

The first things that came to mind was, how stupid is this guy [Hoyer] to attempt to open a college or university and call it homeland security if he is this international criminal Gollin seems to want to make all of us think. After all, you would have to be out of your mind to bring the eyes and ears of eight federal agencies upon you if you are not 100 percent above board.

Prior to making all of these accusations about Hoyer, one may speculate that George D. Gollin would have conducted a thorough investigation, but a review of his CV demonstrates no formal education in conducting investigations. Surely he is an academic and knows how to conduct research, however, conducting a criminal or civil investigation is another matter.

Because Gollin has complained about his academic freedom being hampered, and not an academic myself, I decided to look at the definition of academic freedom.  

Frank Andrews: A Mr. Alan L. Contreras had a very unprofessional comment to make on the degreeinfo web site:

“Owing to an active case, we are seeking information about the involvement of Richard J. Hoyer of New York in various fake schools.

We know that he is involved in the fake College of Homeland Security and is one of the rent-a-perps in the St. Regis - James Monroe - Robertstown University et al. frauds based in Washington State and using false Liberian documentation. Does anyone know of any other fake colleges with which Mr. Hoyer has a connection (besides his local pseudo-medical garbage emitter in Rochester) ?
Please contact me privately if needed at alan.L.contreras@state.or.us
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Alan L. Contreras
Administrator
Oregon Office of Degree Authorization
Oregon Student Assistance Commission”

Frank Andrews: After reviewing these articles and talking with my media contacts, I decided to do some more digging. They informed me that Gollin approached them with all kinds of documents about Hoyer. Gollin provided the Regis University lawsuit papers to the media before Hoyer or the others were served with them. Gollin also had the court papers on his web site before the people named had been served. Thinking the worst but hoping I was wrong, I contacted the lawyers who represented Regis University in the suit. Amazingly, they said that Gollin provided all of the documents against St. Regis University which included Hoyer as being their Provost. After examining these papers, it could be seen that Gollin searched the “way back machine” to find Hoyer listed on some archived SRU web page from 2002 and that is what he provided to the lawyers. After spending more than $100,000 to sue SRU, Regis University lawyers were not happy with the end result. The settlement consisted of all five people listed signing a paper agreeing not to use the name according to the Regis University attorneys. The Regis attorneys asked for their court costs to be covered by SRU and the judge declined their request. The Regis University attorneys don’t speak too kindly about George Gollin, something about being “a loose cannon.”

George Gollin has claimed on web postings that he received the court papers about the Regis University lawsuit through the freedom of information act. That is simply a lie. Gollin contacted Regis University and suggested they sue and include Hoyer in that suit http://insite.regis.edu/action/notices.asp?storyid=5809 Considering Hoyer parted with SRU a year prior to Gollin starting his little hobby, there is a timeline problem here. George Gollin has motives and an agenda that now comes into question.

Mr. George Gollin is beginning to remind me of Professor Ward Churchill from the University of Colorado who is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Spingfield. You may remember him when in an essay written the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, Churchill said; “white-collar workers in the World Trade Center were the equivalent of "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who ensured the smooth running of the infrastructure that enabled the Nazi genocide. Churchill also spoke of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" [9/11 terrorists] that struck America.”

My interview with Richard Hoyer:  I found my talk with Richard Hoyer quite interesting. It’s nice getting it right from the person being smeared and stalked by George Gollin and John Bear. Gollin or Bear have never communicated by phone, fax, mail or email with Hoyer. Except for one hang-up phone call from John Bear’ daughter’ fax machine that still shows on his caller ID.  

Richard Hoyer finds it amusing that Gollin has no experience in distance education and presents himself to be a “diploma mill” and “distance education” expert on television and any newspaper who will listen to him. When Hoyer first began the research for his book, he found 80% of the colleges and universities that responded to his inquiries could not be listed in his book, because they were diploma mills. Four years went into his research before his book was written. That was in the early 1990s when he wrote the first edition that he updates yearly. “George Gollin seems to think you can accomplish this same work in a few computer clicks.”      

Gollin has threatened his life with a rife-scope next to his name and four others, right on the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana web site. As soon as it was brought to the University of Illinois attention, it was quickly removed and replaced with a picture of Gollin and his wife. If it was just a joke and harmless, why was it taken down?  

With this investigation, it’s quite obvious that George Gollin, John Bear and Alan Contreras, have been stalking Richard Hoyer continually and I have strongly suggested he not put up with this public attack any longer. Alan Contreras has posted the on the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization web site the page Gollin was forced to remove about Hoyer from the University of Illinois web site. Contreras has also referred to Hoyer as a “rent-a-perp” (inferring criminal) on that degreeinfo web site.

This stalking serves no legitimate purpose but to annoy, harass and libel Richard Hoyer and hamper his efforts in opening 60 university campuses to train and educate our country first responders in preventing the next terrorist attack. He needs to get the biggest aggressive law firm he can retain to bring a lawsuit against the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, George Gollin, John Bear, Alan Contreras, and the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization. Alan Contreras and his office were recently sued successfully by Kennedy-Western University and another lawsuit is currently pending. Contreras now relies on Gollin and Bear to supply the information that he places on the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization web site. When asked if he verifies the information provided to him, he says: “The state does not provide me a budget for that.”  Allen Ezell is not guilty of anything other than using Bear and Gollin as a reliable source. Besides, his testimony at the senate hearing is protected against libel.

The only threat to homeland security here is George Gollin, John Bear and Alan Contreras referring to the man opening 60 homeland security and counterterrorism educational campuses across the country as some kind of sinister character, when none of this trio has ever attempted to contact him directly and seem to know anything about him.
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I thought Gollin was alright until he extended his critcism from blatant degreemills to unaccredited schools.

I thought Bear was okay until he repudiated his life's work and started attacking those to whom he sold degrees.

I never did think that Contreras was okay because his activity has never been held up in court and he succeeds only by abusing the legal system.
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