u/peppiminti wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Until someone gives me receipts of Codesmith doing that, I’m going to stand by what I said. My DMs are open for Michael to send me proof. You are also making lots of assumptions about me which makes you sound bitter. For my job, I told them during the first interview that I hav
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
1. I have a reference letter signed by Phil Troutman from a few years ago
2. I have numerous confidential chats of people telling me that Codesmith is aware of this and that everyone is aware.
3. The OSLabs directors was basically laid off a year ago but kept on the website and told to keep her email address for appearances but said that Codesmith runs the show and manages everything. They continue to puppet a fake company to do fake reference checks.
4. I know of two cases where people were asked for W2s or proof of work and both those people exaggerate the OSP experience on their resumes and both ended up getting hired without specifying how it happened. And I believe Codesmith acknowledged and helped one of those.
Conspiring to commit fraud is a jail-able crime by the way.
Puppeting a fake charity (that has no revenue reported at the IRS and is run by Annie's team at Codesmith - a team down to one person) to legitimize your students work and then signing reference letters for work that never happened (paid or unpaid) sounds like that.
And yes, proof of a small number of cases is enough for a criminal investigation, and that would uncover all of the slacks, text messages emails, letters, internal discussions about how to handle these, meeting notes, etc....