"a.k.a. HO GATE ??!!"

On the Road to the 2007 Texas State House Committe on Higher Education Hearings Regarding Organized Criminal Activity within the University of Texas System

1. The role of the University of Texas at El Paso as the academic equivalent of an ENRON of Texas-syle continuing Criminal Enterprise.

a) Highlights from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, case No. 02-50566

SARDAR ELDAROVICH GASANOV AND NADIRA GASANOVA, Defendants-Appellants.

i. Critical role of UTEP Professor Eppie Rael
ii. Vital role of UTEP Professor Sid Das

Taken from transcript pages 8 through 11:

"At the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP), the professor who is seeking permission for an alien student's entry to the United States prepares an application for the IAP-66, which is then reviewed and approved by various UTEP officials before the IAP-66 is issued (6 R. 153)

"Gasanov, a researcher at UTEP and a director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), was known in UTEP's scientific community ( 6 R. 128, 132).

"Mr. Siddartha Das, a fellow professor researcher at UTEP, believed and relied upon Gasonov's false representations of Ms. Sabirova's and Ms. Romanova's qualifications, and prepared an application for the IAP-66 and other documentation to support their entry into the United States (6 R. 131-132, 134-135). Mr. Eppie Rael, another colleague at UTEP, similarly relied on Gasonov's false representations to sign an application for the IAP-66 on behalf of Ms. Ikmatova (7 R. 102-103, 105).

"[The three womens'] ability to speak English did not substantially improve while they were topless dancers ( 7 R. 160; 8 R. 76, 90; 8 R. 197). Ms. Sabirova and Ms. Romanova never set foot at UTEP to perform any research. Ms. Ikmatova only came to the laboratory on a few occasions to wash laboratory dishes and [in her own words] make microbes, as instructed by Gasonov (8 R. 150-151). Gasanov said she had to come so that other professors [besides Rael & Das??!!] would see her in the laboratory ( 8 R. 150). Gasonova [the other's wife] admitted that she had no intention that the women would be students or perform research; the primary purpose was for the women to earn money by working as topless dancers ( 9 R. 77)."