Big Financial Opportunity
Issue date: 4/21/04 Section: Bullyrag
Former Harvard professor Weldong Xu, who was arrested
in March for his alleged scheme to bilk colleagues out of
$600,000 to fund a bogus SARS research institute in China,
admitted to Boston police that he spent part of the money
on what the detectives recognized as an electronic Nigerian
money-laundering scam, although Xu aggressively insisted
that it was a legitimate deal. Said Detective Steve Blair,
"The Harvard professor never caught on." Commenting on
the incident, Princeton president Shirley Tilghman noted
that while she is glad to see bad things happen to Harvard,
it was unfortunate that Xu had been scammed, particularly
for the Nigerian people." Their reputation is tainted now.
Fortunately, they're willing and eager to make amends. I've
been contacted via email by several Nigerian businessmen
offering very lucrative investment opportunities for our
endowment. I'll pull the trigger on that as soon as I'm
contacted by a Nigerian woman."
in March for his alleged scheme to bilk colleagues out of
$600,000 to fund a bogus SARS research institute in China,
admitted to Boston police that he spent part of the money
on what the detectives recognized as an electronic Nigerian
money-laundering scam, although Xu aggressively insisted
that it was a legitimate deal. Said Detective Steve Blair,
"The Harvard professor never caught on." Commenting on
the incident, Princeton president Shirley Tilghman noted
that while she is glad to see bad things happen to Harvard,
it was unfortunate that Xu had been scammed, particularly
for the Nigerian people." Their reputation is tainted now.
Fortunately, they're willing and eager to make amends. I've
been contacted via email by several Nigerian businessmen
offering very lucrative investment opportunities for our
endowment. I'll pull the trigger on that as soon as I'm
contacted by a Nigerian woman."