Per this storylinked another SDMB thread. The fartherest my google-fu got was that he had cooked up some typical con man sounding medical excuse (below)and then both he and the case seem to drop off the radar.
There is a consulitng company web site with his name attached to it, but it’s this amateur looking flash thing that’s almost devoid of real content.
Here’s his personal web site and resume.
Was he ever punished for this perjury? What happened to the case against Mercer?
Well there’s this.
http://www.stuartpiltch.com/declaration.html
Apparently he’s still holding onto the I’m a kinda-sorta actuary claim. Interesting that he got the general to do this wonky letter. The CIA claims they never employed him in any capacity.
From this source the lawsuit against Mercer Human Resource Consulting was settled in October 2009 (they seem to get sued a lot!). From the list of expert witnesses, you can see that Piltch was not used. It does appear that he continues to be an “expert” to this day. From reading his online c.v. I don’t see how his degree in history and American studies is consistent with his alleged deep background in game theory and predictive modeling. And to have the equivalent of an actuarial license he would need to know some pretty advanced math. Moreover, I’m always suspicious of anyone with almost 30 years of experience who still puts his GPA in his vita! So his background story sounds very fishy. Since it’d been really easy for him to get demolished on the stand by someone who did have the expertise, I’m sure that’s why he left the case instead of his excuse of a “dire” health problem at the time.
Ok, it’s starting to come together now. Here’s 500,000 reasons in the form of a gift to his school from Piltch that the retired USMC general wrote the letter. This is pretty fascinating. Gen Stephen Allen Cheney effectively took a bribe.
Aren’t actuaries all publicly licensed? Seems like it would be an easy thing to look up.
I automatically assumed that CIA referred to the Canadian Institute of Actuaries!
In Australia you can’t describe yourself as an ‘actuary’ unless you have gained the necessary qualifications from the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, or an equivalent overseas body. It’s very easy to check with the appropriate professional body if you have any doubts about anyone’s standing. I think the situation is pretty much the same in the US. Mr Piltch claims to have done alternative courses/tests that were equivalent to those offered by the professional bodies (presumably the Society of Actuaries, the Casualty Actuarial Society, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries etc). No doubt one of the US Doper actuaries can comment on how likely such a claim is. Not very likely would be my guess.
Such a claim is preposterous on its face. There are no tests equivalent to those offered by the SOA or the CAS. What would be the point of creating them, since the SOA and CAS already exist and exam creation is extremely labor-intensive?
I have to hand it to Mr. Piltch–most people makling up BS backgrounds choose something more glamorous than “actuary”. He found an underdeveloped but lucrative niche.
I know this is old but there’s a huge update (wait till you hear the ending). Apparently he’s been milking his relationship with the general and his fake CIA credentials for a while now. He joined the board of directors of a small think-tank called the “American Security Project” several years back, doubling down on the whole “I’m a CIA-trained health insurance consultant”. Not surprisingly, the general is on the board of directors of the think tank. The general also made a very dubious claim about his CIA links as well…he may have done some pro bono work for the CIA as part of his work with an agency named BENS but it was hardly top-secret and it would be incorrect to say he was in the CIA.
Piltch also made recent news for his involvement in a high profile prostitution scandal. You have to scroll down in this article, but it’s there. A real character, it seems.
Former Sex Worker Describes 7 Hours of Torture by Alleged Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult Dad?
Contributing nothing useful to a decade old thread but I’d just note that the composite Jack Ryan character of film and TV [lets just call him the bastard amalgam of the Baldwin and Krasinski versions] appears to have exactly that skill set - authoring detailed biographical histories on WW2 admirals and being a forensic bean counter…
Looks like that comment really spooked him. Within a few weeks of that post, several websites and social media accounts popped up, all of which appear to be going all in on the “I’m a CIA-trained health insurance consultant” gig…a job that’s too top secret to have any record but not so top secret he can’t boast about it all over the Internet. Classic “Stolen Valor” nonsense.
One of the sites, a knockoff Wikipedia page, was generated by a woman with ties to Edelman, an expensive New York-based PR firm notorious for astroturfing campaigns. But even though Stuart appears to be paying top dollar for this PR blitz, most of the pages feature cheap AI-generated text and images. What’s odd is that it looks as if he’s probably spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars on this charade over the past two decades in the form of “donations” to the general’s school and think-tank. The lie’s gotten even bigger as now he’s claiming to have spent a full career in the CIA in conflict zones.
You have to give him credit, though. That general wasn’t just any general. He was the former inspector general of the Marine Corps…the guy whose sole job was to investigate these sorts of conflicts of interest. That’s pretty bold.