The Reservoir Diploma: How a Thrown Forgery Built a City Career
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The Reservoir Diploma: How a Thrown Forgery Built a City Career
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A forged diploma survived four years underwater and still read clearly when a fisherman found it sealed in a plastic tube at Parrish Reservoir-how did a forty-dollar template and a photo of someone else’s degree build a municipal engineering career? Who benefits when fake credentials meet real competence, and what finally unravels when bureaucracy catches up?
In this episode, we follow the path from a small Indiana high school to a municipal utilities contract, tracing the decisions, the people, and the moment a tossed diploma surfaced to change everything. We outline how a photograph at a house party turned into a realistic diploma, how that paper opened doors, and the unanswered question about why it was thrown away before his first day.
Person: Grant Alan Alan
Location: Parrish Reservoir
Date: May 3, 2016
Employer: Meridian Systems
Salary: $61,000 per year
- The diploma dated 2014 was sealed in a plastic tube and had been underwater for approximately four years yet remained nearly readable.
- Grant photographed Dennis Chu’s Carver Technical University diploma at a house party in 2013 or 2014, which became the source image for the forgery.
- The fake diploma was produced using a $40 template on cream-colored cotton-fiber stock with an embossed gold seal and oil-based ink from a copy shop in Akron.
- Grant was hired by Meridian Systems in early 2016, started a job paying $61,000 per year, and threw the sealed tube into Parrish Reservoir three days before his start date.
- By 2018 Grant had been promoted to project lead overseeing a team of eleven after eighteen months of unremarkable performance and a supervisor’s recommendation.
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