Creepy Douche Alert at Notre Dame
In this season of costumed crusaders, one person has decided to dress up as a Notre Dame 1L. Only he’s not doing it to get candy on Halloween. Instead, he’s just some creepy douchebag that is rolling around.
But he’s freaked out the Notre Dame administration. They felt compelled to send around a warning to the law school:
Dear Members of the Law School Community-Please be aware that a person identifying himself as a Notre Dame 1L student was in the building yesterday (accompanied by another person). He informally chatted with several individuals and identified himself as either Gary Stearley or Gabriel Stearley. While here, he also utilized various law school services (e.g., fax machine, NDLS logo apparel purchases from SBA). A photo of the individual (taken from Facebook) is attached to this email.
This person is not a Notre Dame student, and it is our understanding that a person with this name has engaged in false-identity behavior elsewhere in the past. The issue has been reported to ND Security. If you see this person in the building, please notify Notre Dame Security immediately at 1-5555.
In the meantime, please remember that despite the collegial setting of the law school, you should always take precautions to protect your personal property while in the building.
After the jump, learn the face of the impostor.
“Gary Stearley” (pictured) is allegedly a professional con artist. He was arrested in Jacksonville in 2001. From the Florida Times-Union:
When Malachi Stearley walked into Shands Jacksonville last spring pretending to be a doctor, he said he thought security would be tight because he’d heard about a baby being stolen there and figured staff would be more wary.But when he was approached by a hospital official, Stearley said he told the woman he had left his ID in his car.
“She said, ‘OK, Doctor, go right ahead.’ I said [to myself], ‘No, she didn’t. No, she didn’t tell me to go ahead,’” Stearley said yesterday. “Once I got in, that was it. I let my mouth do the work after that. All the hospitals here were easy. Shands was the easiest.”
Stearley, who goes by several aliases including Gary Stearley and has pulled similar stunts in hospitals in other parts of the country, was sentenced yesterday by a Jacksonville judge to six months in county jail. He pleaded guilty to impersonating a physician’s assistant.
Stearley keeps the law school lie going on his MySpace page.
Chances are, this guy is harmless. Here were his motivations for the doctor scam:
He said his fascination with the medical profession, the fact that he could get away with the scam and the respect he got while pretending to be a doctor prompted him to walk into the hospitals as an impostor. He also said the ability to steal pagers and cell phones from the doctor’s lounges to sell for money made the hoax profitable.When he arrived in town, Stearley said he asked a Jacksonville police officer about the local hospitals while claiming to be a medical student from Detroit. He said the officer told him that if he was into trauma, Shands was the place to go. The officer also told him about a baby having been stolen from Shands.
My guess is that he is just doing “research” for a future gig as a fake Kirkland & Ellis attorney or something. But something tells me that the “respect” he got while impersonating a doctor won’t be transferable to his new profession. And it certainly won’t be as profitable — this isn’t 2007.
But there’s no chance Stearley is going to be caught this weekend. How do you spot an impersonator on Halloween?
Fake doctor’s aide gets 6 months [Florida Times-Union]
(69) Comments
Comments
First Douche.
oh, so when Frank Abagnale does it it's cool, but not when this guy does it? come on
I think Notre Dame 1L is a pretty cool guy. eh impersonates doctors and doesnt afraid of anything
"How do you spot an impersonator on Halloween? "
This reminds me of all my second all time favorite people-watching game "Costume or Uniform?" Unfortunately, you can only play it for about a week a year. This is why it can't claim the top spot from the classic "Fat or Pregnant."
Look, I'm not saying I know or don't know anything about assuming another identity, but if you're going that route, at least pursue a real opportunity. A physician's assistant? A LAW STUDENT? That's not how you eventually become a partner at an exclusive Madison Ave. advertising firm. Again, not that I know anything about any of this.
Free James Hogue!
Needless Kirkland comment. Why do you hate us?
This is a hoax post, right? Notre Dame doesn't even have a law school. That's the real joke, I think.
8, you're half right. Theyre accreditation is under review by the ABA for their ties to the Catholic Church
"Chances are, this guy is harmless."
Good to know that stealing from others is "harmless." I will remember this next time you put your laptop and donuts next to me in the subway.
草他大爷的
Reminds me of a 1L imposter at U of Penn Law School back in fall of 1988. The guy ran his scam for weeks before being caught. Very strange that anyone would want to do this.
remember when rudy pretended to be a Notre Dame student but wasn't?
3/9 is simply terrible.
hhahaha Who would want to pretend to be us? A better costume would be to sit on the street with a "Will Work for 2L Summer job"
- REAL Notre Dame 2L
I don't get it - the guy's a serial con artist and impersonator, so he shows up at ND and starts giving out his existing alias? And he has a Myspace page under the same name? Huh?
@7 - Peter, is that you?
Stanford had an undergraduate impostor a couple years ago, but I think she at least got the benefit of living in a dorm room for a few months.
Theres a guy wearing a ghost costume around the school. I bet its this guy under a sheet!
Check this out--It took Stanford undergrads EIGHT MONTHS to figure out a student was an imposter. Awesome. The reason was that the dorm she was in was a relatively antisocial, 4-class dorm.
http://forum.newshounds.us/viewtopic.php?t=16788&view=next&sid=fd1aec297836cf8d613f0bf9925aa858
I would make some sex with him if he looked like Kash.
ShaFeef
Check this out--It took Stanford undergrads EIGHT MONTHS to figure out a student was an imposter. Awesome. The reason was that the dorm she was in was a relatively antisocial, 4-class dorm.
http://forum.newshounds.us/viewtopic.php?t=16788&view=next&sid=fd1aec297836cf8d613f0bf9925aa858
I'm not a real lawyer, but I've been reading ATL for months. And stealing all of your cell phones from the break room.
That so crazy
that people still use myspace.
I'd hire this guy in a heartbeat. He has skills a lot more useful than those of legitimate Notre Dame law grads.
the claim that he's a douche is pure speculation.
i echo everyone's sentiments that dude is the most intelligent individual in the notre dame law school building. he is staying warm and accruing no debt.
14 - Y U DO?
*YAWN* PE gets away with his impostor routine all day, every day here at ATL.
I wish he'd go impersonate a member of our CSO. Maybe he could actually get one of us a job.
NDLS 3L
Didnt The Judge promise to give us a verdict on Elie sometime this week? Did I miss it?
Wait, I thought we were talking about Jimmy Clausen?
12,
His name was Michael Smerconish.
White male - I bet he'll fit right in at law school. Law school is camoflouge for white males.
This is precisely why we need moar affirmative action.
EQUALITY SECURE
@17, YES!
-7
OH MY GOD IT'S EDGARDERBY!
Moar WALRUS! The resemblance to Mystal is uncanny!
In other news, Notre Dame grads have been dressing up as real lawyers for decades.
I'm sorry, but isn't Notre Dame a football team? I don't get any of this.
Was Rudy also a gay?
Why would any want to be a 1L at Notre Dame, actual or otherwise?
That lateral link job sucks
Ban 11. What a racist.
42
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我玩笑话
我向撒尿撒尿
在你的焦炭
not 11
The one and only time you mention a gay guy and he's a criminal. Talk about invidious stereotypes! Why does Above the Law hate gays?
Yo Gary Stearly, I'm really happy for you, I'ma Let you finish, but girl from stanford has one of the best con jobs of all time...OF ALL TIME!
-Real Notre Dame 2L
32 - hilarious.
12
Also, 35, I AM Edgar Derby.
-Real Notre Dame 2L
8/7 - You are talking about the 23rd ranked law school in the country, right. 23rd isn't high enough for you?
48 - floodgates, meet open.
Look guys. I was just trying to buy a shirt and have a little fun. I didn't do anything illegel. I was pulling it off to, until I got called on in class. I don't know why this is such a big deal. Pick on someone else. Going into a public building and sending a fax isn't a crime
- Gary Stearley (really)
Reasons not to attend NDLS: South Bend, Ugly Girls, Conservative Catholics, Football Fetish, EdgarDerby, and now this guy...
Oh yeah, and they have a chapel in their law school. Mock Marriage Team, I assume.
Reasons not to attend NDLS: South Bend, Ugly Girls, Conservative Catholics, Football Fetish, EdgarDerby, and now this guy...
Oh yeah, and they have a chapel in their law school. Mock Marriage Team, I assume.
Reasons not to attend NDLS: South Bend, Ugly Girls, Conservative Catholics, Football Fetish, EdgarDerby, and now this guy...
Oh yeah, and they have a chapel in their law school. Mock Marriage Team, I assume.
coommmmboobreakkkkker
Is that Jack from Will & Grace?
51-53: illustrating his own idiocy through the "post comment" button
You'd be hard-pressed to find a guy in Notre Dame who *wasn't* a creepy douche.
-Female NDLS 3L
MysTTTal, what's up with all the K&E hating?
57: Wanna do some hard-pressing?
-Creepy male NDLS 1L
@43
我曾与你的母亲性别
not 42
@41--Word on the street is that the job is at Latham. SHOCKER--you cut too deep, Ora!!!
Let some good people go! Don't you feel like a schmuck, Luke?
Yup, that SF corporate job on Lateral Link is indeed at Latham. Nice of them to go to a headhunter instead of calling up one of the 190 lawyers they fired.
50 - prove it.
-57 I'd love to go skinny-dipping with you. I won't rub it on you too much. -UPR Alum.
-57 I'd love to go skinny-dipping with you. I won't rub it on you too much. -ND 3L
All K&E attorneys are fake.
Douchebags at ND? Catching this guy is going to be like when Waldo visited the South Pole.
He should at least go to a law school where it's not a violation of the student code to get laid.
Gary is an amateur. He should take some lessons from ND's career services and admissions.
51-53: everything you said was right on. I should have never turned down my T9 offer for this dump.
Also, the real joke is that this is probably the only school that throws its students under the bus in the name of the Catholicism. I heard they kicked out a student for premarital sex with a priest. The priest was given a 6 month sabbatical and 10k in Chuck E. Cheese tokens.