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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 03:08 AM
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Producer of "Waiting for Superman" = former CEO of for-profit education company -- & scammer
Edited on Sat Oct-23-10 03:14 AM by Hannah Bell
See below; about Jim Berk, CEO of Participant Media who joined the company in 2006. Participant Media came up w/ idea for Waiting for Superman, helped produce it and is now running the “campaign” to promote its ideas to policymakers.

Berk used to be head of Gryphon Colleges Corporation, part of Gryphon Investors, a $700 million San Francisco-based private equity fund which operates Gryphon Colleges Corporation, which invests in and owns for-profit EMOs.

In 2006,Gryphon Investors, through Gryphon Colleges Corporation, acquired Delta Educational Systems, which operated 16 for-profit vocational schools in Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_May_15/ai_n16361472/

See http://www.hedgetracker.com/article/Gryphons-Investment-Research-Scam-halted-after-fooling-investors-out-of-175-million for how Gryphon Investors has been recently sued by the SEC for scamming investors, and running “an Internet-based scam that lured investors into paying for fabricated stock market advice and investment tips from nonexistent “experts.”.

http://normsnotes2.blogspot.com/2010/10/was-davis-guggenheim-dupe-or-willing.html
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 07:14 AM
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1. k & r
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 07:41 AM
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2. it`s really hard for these cockroaches to hide anymore
a few searches on the internet and they are exposed.

to bad the damage is already done.
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