SUNY official's astonishing accounts called into question

[TexasTowelie]

Chief of staff at Upstate Medical University not an attorney, but claims to be


Syracuse -- During a lecture last fall, Sergio A. Garcia, a top official at New York's Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, recounted for the audience his harrowing experience during a deadly April 2011 bombing in Afghanistan.

Garcia, a former U.S. State Department foreign affairs officer, described how a three-vehicle convoy delivering books to an all-girls school in southern Afghanistan was disrupted when a bomb killed many of his colleagues, including Anne Smedinghoff, a young foreign service officer.

"Annie," Garcia said, claiming that he had been her mentor. "She was 23 years old, from Pennsylvania. ... Her first posting was in Afghanistan, which was a little unusual, but that's where she wanted to go. ... I was in the third car, the bomb went off on the first car and, you know, a lot of my colleagues, civilian and military, were killed."

Garcia, 43, evoked the deadly incident during a diversity lecture he gave last year at Upstate Medical University, which is the Syracuse region's largest employer — more than 9,500 workers — and where Garcia has been a $340,000-a-year senior vice president and chief of staff since his appointment in March 2017.

Read more: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/SUNY-official-wrongly-claimed-to-have-been-at-12927729.php

[roscoeroscoe]

1. Bad human resources job it seems

Probably tried to get a job with the White House - only room for one con man at a time

[OneBro]

2. The very definition of a pathological liar.

A conversation between him and Trump would be hilarious, with each one trying to one-up the other and nary a true word said.