Dominick McGee (aka Dom Lucre)

The George Santos of Tennessee

I have returned! But I will take a short break from my mortgage work to tell my readers about some fun I have been having with a grifter on twitter: Dominick McGee (aka Dom Lucre). Without going into his politics and general misinformation bordering on complete nonsense, I will just say that he has amassed a large right-wing following of close to 400,000 on twitter. The usual mix of conspiracy theories, election denial, hate/fear, and a total ignorance of history. I have fondly nicknamed him “Dumber Kanye”. Here is an NYT article about him if you want some background:

The crazy thing is that he is very much a Santos character in that he brags about his great businesses, his great philanthropy, and his supposed $150,000 Patek Philippe watch (hence the meme…shocker: it’s an obvious fake!). I and a few others have addressed most of that on twitter:

• He can’t provide a TaxID or any information on the charity he supposedly founded, “Citizen’s Crusade”.

• His business, Credit Cadabra, appears to be completely fake with numerous obvious fake online reviews, and Dom has no license to provide credit counseling services as required by Tennessee law.

• The watch is an obvious and illegal counterfeit (perhaps he imports them?). He was genius/generous enough to flash some closeups and it is a $500 fake, not a $150,000 work of art!

  

Given almost everything Dom claims is a lie, there are a couple of more items I would like to have addressed before I leave Mr. McGee to his own sociopathic devices. The first is his military record. An associate has already filed the appropriate paperwork to receive those records. The second is his education, which I will address here.

Wharton Certificate

In various bios, Mr. McGee claims to have obtained a “Certificate” from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 or sometimes 2020. Sometimes he claims it is in Corporate Finance and other times he claims it is in Computer Architecture. Wharton does offer some short 1-week Executive Education courses that anyone can attend and receive a certificate in as long as they pay. These are usually paid for by large corporations as the fees for a one-week course ($10,000??) would be preventative (and not much value) for your average unemployed student without any other degrees or jobs.

I didn’t bother trying to verify Mr. McGee’s certificate or his claimed grade (A+…they don’t provide grades as far as I know.) Perhaps if he can gain clarity on what the certificate was for, I’ll “dive in”. Generally you will find folks who either did or didn’t attend these short courses claiming they “Went to Wharton” or “Went to Harvard”. Those same people wear fake Patek Philippe watches…

Penn State Bachelors Degree

In various places and interviews provided in April of 2022, Mr. McGee also claims to have received a bachelors degree from Penn State. Again, he’s not quite sure whether it is in Finance or Computer Software Engineering. Here are four references:

With that I attempted to confirm Mr. McGee’s attendance/degree with Penn State.

Shocker: They couldn’t verify any diplomas or degrees.

Dom has been attending off and on part-time since 2017. His latest attendance ended in December/2022, and he appeared to have nearly 3 years of equivalent full-time attendance at that point. I suppose it is possible he received a diploma or degree in 2023. That said, he claims that he had the diploma back in April of 2022 (when he was still enrolled and then enrolled for an additional 8 months after that!?). Attendance records confirmed below. Again, they did not confirm any diplomas or degrees.

I was actually expecting that his Penn State attendance was completely made up, so I guess that is SOMETHING! Dom would probably call this a victory against the White Liberal Mafia…(I am an equal opportunity and bi-partisan buster of grifters…). I will follow up when we get the military records!

Enrollment Verification

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

verifies that:

DOMINICK MCGEE

was enrolled as follows:

12/13/2022 Less than half time 08/22/2022 12/16/2022 (1/4 x 1/3) = 0.08

08/11/2022 Less than half time 05/09/2022 08/12/2022 (1/4 x 1/3) = 0.08

05/04/2022 Three-quarter time 01/10/2022 05/06/2022=(3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

12/15/2021 Three-quarter time 08/23/2021 12/17/2021=(3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

08/17/2021 Three-quarter time 05/10/2021 08/13/2021=(3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

05/07/2021 Half-time 01/19/2021 05/07/2021 (.5 x 1/3) = 0.17

12/15/2020 Three-quarter time 08/24/2020 12/18/2020=(3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

08/14/2020 Three-quarter time 05/11/2020 08/14/2020=(3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

05/06/2020 Three-quarter time 01/13/2020 05/08/2020 =(3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

12/18/2019 Half-time 08/26/2019 12/20/2019 = (1/2 x 1/3) = 0.25

12/15/2017 Full-time 08/21/2017 12/15/2017 = (1 x 1/3) = 0.33

08/14/2017 Three-quarter time 05/08/2017 08/11/2017 = (3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

05/09/2017 Three-quarter time 01/09/2017 05/05/2017 = (3/4 x 1/3) = 0.25

Total Years Equivalency = 2.91 Full Time Years.