Thank you Congressman Michael Vaughn. It is folks like you who make background screeners like me excited about my next blog post. You claimed on your website to have played for the Dallas Cowboys in 1980. Not according to the Dallas Cowboys. When questioned about this, you showed your NFL Players Alumni Association card. And for $150, I too can be the proud owner of one of those bad boys. Doh!
It gets better (or worse). You next blamed your web developer for the misinformation and quickly pulled it off your website. Well my friend, you might not have played for the Cowboys but you sure did fumble this one away.
This remind me of a situation I ran into several years ago. I met a C-Level executive at a Fortune 100 organization several years ago whom I became friendly with. When he was getting ready to invest in a new business, he asked me to perform a background check on the principals of the company he was interested in. They, in turn asked him to submit to a background check as well. They both engaged us to conduct the checks. A day later, I got a phone call from this executive and he asked if our background check would reveal that he never played college basketball for a major university. I didn’t have to ask why, but learned a valuable lesson. People tell stupid lies for stupid reason and while those lies are inconsequential, they usually come back to bite you.
I’m sure Congressman Vaughn had nothing to gain other than propping up his ego for lying about his football exploits. Was it worth it?
