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Chameleon

Dr. Dante | 6. The Troubleshooter

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.68K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When a local TV news investigative team gets a tip about a fake university, they set out on what becomes a multi-year pursuit to find the man behind one of the largest degree mills in history. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Chameleon, ad-free right now. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Chameleon show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from SonyMusic Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's something I haven't told you before.

0:02.0

You're really not very, you know, very, what?

0:05.0

Camille, season five, Dr. Dante.

0:09.0

A production of campsite media.

0:11.0

Dr. Dante.

0:13.0

In 1997, when charges were filed by the Central District of California in connection with Permiderm,

0:23.0

Dr. Ronald Dante's lawyer told him that he had two choices.

0:27.0

He could either be arrested or flee the country.

0:30.0

The lawyer told me he said, if I don't want to go to prison, I got to go south through the

0:35.0

north, Canada, or the other place.

0:39.0

So Dante headed south to the other place and crossed the border into Mexico with a bag filled

0:44.6

with gold and cash and set up shop in Ensenada, a laid back port city on the Pacific coast.

0:51.0

And while he could rest assured that he'd be safe from extradition, his lawyer had made it clear.

0:56.0

Step one foot back in the United States and he'd be in the express lane back to prison,

1:01.0

which Dante had no interest in.

1:04.0

He's especially since he was in the midst of raking it in with his most lucrative pursuit yet,

1:09.0

Columbia State University.

1:13.0

So he was here in Mexico to set up a new life and run Columbia State from afar,

1:19.0

a correspondence school run by correspondence, you could say.

1:23.0

As for accommodations, Dante stayed in some hotels and Ensenada for a time.

1:28.0

But then he thought this just won't do and decided to invest in some lodging more be fitting

1:33.0

of a fugitive university came in, something with room for his family.

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