was former U.S. government official Laura Callahan, a key figure in the "Project X" email scandal involving the disappearance of thousands of White House emails which had been subpoenaed by Congress.<ref>Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees to Federal Employees at Government Expense, Statement of Robert J. Cramer, Managing Director, Office of Special Investigations, United States Government Accountability Office, Before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives (2004-09-23</ref> Callahan's diplomas from HU had enabled her to get a high position in the United States Department of Homeland Security. A probe of her claims evolved into an investigation by the Government Accountability Office of Federal employees who had paid diploma mills with taxpayer funds. When the CBS 60 Minutes video crew visited the campus, there was no evidence of any students or faculty, but three office workers present. People with Hamilton degrees Laura Callahan, former senior director at the United States Department of Homeland Security Ben Hanlon, the father and leader of the Wild Hanlons from the NBC television show Treasure Hunters'', claims a Masters and PhD from Hamilton University Jack J. Pelton, former CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co and current Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association Connected institutions American State University (Moved to Wyoming and renamed Hamilton University) Richardson University (Bahamas) (Hamilton University, renamed and relocated again after Wyoming shut the operation down) See also List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning List of unrecognized accreditation associations of higher learning References External links Hamilton University's website from Archive.org Unaccredited institutions of higher learning in the United States