UD ain’t sayin’ they don’t look good. They look good!
This one graduated from a school on whose board of trustees sits no less a financial figure than Steven Cohen, and whose last president, in her role as Goldman Sachs trustee, approved a nine million dollar bonus one year for Lloyd Blankfein. And of course he’s been a professor since 1997 at Columbia University business school, whose dean is both a film star and a fan of Countrywide Financial Corp.
Gregory Rorke has definitely got the pedigree.
But what does UD always tell you? What does she tell you so often that it’s one of this blog’s most-used categories?
Sing it with me: BEWARE THE B-SCHOOL BOYS.
Scroll down here for Rorke’s long-form bio from his participation in a Columbia University conference titled Out of the Storm But Not Out of the Woods…
Though given Rorke’s arrest for “bilking investors including a former student out of $3 million” (Including a former student! What good are students if they can’t be stooges? Talk about sitting ducks. They’re literally sitting there in your classroom being sitting ducks!) for him it currently looks more like Inside the Storm and Deep Into Preet’s Woods…
This would be Preet Bharara, scourge of Wall Street. “Columbia decline[d] to comment on Rorke’s arrest.” They’re taking the MIT route. Who? Bitr… How do you spell that? Thirty-five years on the faculty? Dean? What the hell are you talking about?
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Did Rorke study creative writing at Brown?
[O]n November 28, 2012, after receiving multiple complaints from Navagate investors demanding repayment and/or threatening to sue RORKE, RORKE forwarded an email purporting to be from a representative of Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation (“HSBC”), which falsely stated that HSBC had just signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Navagate when, in truth and in fact, the email appears to have been a complete fabrication.
November 2012… mere months after sharing his thoughts on “the emerging lucrative exit opportunities and the challenges that the private equity and venture capital industries are facing ahead” [Bit redundant there, says Scathing Online Schoolmarm. If they’re emerging, then they’re ahead…], Rorke was desperately penning good news from Shanghai…
November 1st, 2014 at 10:53AM
Damn, what was I thinking (or not thinking)!!! 39 years of teaching law and I totally forgot to hit students up for money except, indirectly, through that mysterious process by means of which part of tuition metamorphoses into salary.
November 1st, 2014 at 2:06PM
Nice to see that he’s “CEO of Kaplan Educational Centers, a subsidiary of The Washington Post, …”
November 1st, 2014 at 4:29PM
Jeremy: I meant to mention that! As I said, quite the pedigree.
November 2nd, 2014 at 8:55AM
Geez– Brown, Columbia, Harvard. This is affinity fraud where ‘affinity’ means ‘Ivy League.’
January 23rd, 2015 at 7:05AM
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