Lying about having a college degree is mere "embellishment", according to this. [View all]

[closeupready]

>>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is out after it was found he padded his resume with an embellished college degree, ending his term at the company after just four months.

--------------------------

False statements: Thompson's published Yahoo bios -- including the one in the company's latest annual report, a legal document that CEOs must personally swear are truthful -- have claimed that he holds a bachelor's degree in both accounting and computer science from Stonehill College. His degree is actually in accounting only.

Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) called the mistake an "inadvertent error." The board said this week that it had hired outside counsel to conduct a review of the false statement. Soon after, the director who led Yahoo's CEO search committee, Patti Hart, announced that she would step down at the end of her current term. <<

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/index.htm

Lying is lying, embellishment is not lying.