… a 70-year old chief medical officer at the California-based firm Immix Biopharma was found to be a fugitive sex predator who disappeared during his 2005 trial. Though he went by Richard Graydon in the more than twenty years since, his real name turns out to be Ronald Fischer — an anesthesiologist accused of raping numerous women on his various yachts (yes, plural).
I have had to go through so many background checks and have had to prove identity and work status to get a job. How can you become an exec of a modern company on a fake name?
I think at a certain level (i.e. “this guy is going to make us millions of dollars and my buddy plays pickleball with him”) those checks are probably waived.
Like many other things go these days, the experience is completely different if you’re in the club.
The adage, “It’s not what you know, but who you know,” is an adage for that reason.
But how did he stay in the club while being a fugitive from the law? How did he maintain access to his assets?
People in this club think of his as petty offenses. Just like you going by red over the street.
If undocumented immigrants can pay dealers to get social security numbers, then a doctor/executive certainly can as well.
I think people misunderstand your comment.
What I suspect you’re saying is that if those in a disadvantageous position, likely having limited financial, social, and political capital, can acquire a fictitious, functional identity, then someone with the means to afford multiple yachts absolutely can do so.
Indeed. That’s what I meant. It’s not a dig on undocumented folks. It’s just a simple fact that if people with very few resources, who may not even speak English can manage to obtain fake IDs allowing them to find work in the US, then someone with yacht money certainly can as well.
If undocumented immigrants want any work other than cash day labor, they have to obtain an ID. Often this is through brokers. Sometimes one person will rent out their social security number to multiple other people. Sometimes the SSNs of dead people get bought and sold.
But for any serious job in the US, you’ll have to get past the e-verify system. And that requires documents. And if undocumented immigrants can obtain that paperwork, so can a doctor or executive.
So many undocumented immigrants going for those CMO roles these days.
Read more carefully please.
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