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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

We're in the series Bad Teacher, where I share cases of educators who committed newsworthy

crimes.

This week I'll tell you the story of a man whose brilliant mind and business acumen took

him from a third floor tenement walk-up as a boy to a multi-million dollar gated estate

in Manchester by the sea Massachusetts.

A Yale University graduate who became an esteemed faculty member at MIT, Professor John

Jay Donovan built a fortune as the founder of computer consulting businesses and a corporate

training guru.

But with all of that, Donovan's greed and an untimely accusation of abuse would cause

him to perpetrate a bizarre hoax that would ruin both his family relationships and his

reputation.

This is the last chapter in the series Bad Teacher, the case of John Jay Donovan Senior.

In 1990, John Jay Donovan Senior, or Professor Donovan as he preferred to be called, was living

the good life.

The company he'd co-founded in 1977, Cambridge Technology Partners, had become highly

profitable, winning contracts worth up to $300,000 annually from major corporations like

Hulett Packard and Oracle.

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