The paper reports on a series of experiments that presented more than 800 male and female biology, engineering, psychology, and economics faculty members at 371 universities with various versions of the credentials of fictitious applicants for assistant professorships.
Working with at least one co-conspirator, Mr. Davis issued checks to six fictitious companies, said Scott Resnick, an assistant United States Attorney.
The Emmy-nominated actor played Anthony Bouvier, assistant at the fictitious Sugarbaker interior design firm in Atlanta on "Designing Women," and flamboyant window dresser Hollywood Montrose in the 1987 hit "Mannequin".
At the same time, Kerviel went to great lengths to continue his deception, enlisting a trading assistant to help enter the fictitious trades and on several occasions forging e-mails to appease the compliance officers.
"The monthly statements were completely fictitious, but word spread anyway," says Teresa Verges, assistant regional director of the SEC office in Miami.
Mr. Kerviel's assistant, Mr. Mougard, denied ever knowingly conducting fictitious transactions.
PARIS — Jérôme Kerviel, the former trader at the bank Société Générale, has told French investigators that an assistant on his desk conducted at least one large fictitious transaction last spring on their boss's computer — as the boss looked on, according to a court document obtained on Thursday by The International Herald Tribune.
Ever since fictitious shows like Crime Scene Investigation flooded television channels, everyone is aware of scientific laboratory assistants and forensic technicians working in laboratories who apply various scientific techniques to track down criminals.
(Names used are fictitious).
