Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Bottom line, if something happened involving one of these airmen and it came out that the FAA knew or suspected their certification was questionable, the lawyers would have a field day. And some politicians.
Also, I'll say this... it's sounds like this guy was Santa-for-Hire. I'd imagine at least of some of these cert holders may have known, or should have suspected, they were taking a shortcut.
"If" the guy was a "Santa for hire" as you are saying, I am certain most knew about it. I mean hell, even today when people are going through recurrent everyone knows the examiners they want, the ones they dont want and certainly want to know about the new ones.
Sure, there could be some that didn't have a clue about the reputation of this guy, certainly all the instructors had to of known about him as well. I just cant see this being all ignorance on as everyones defense.