Bill Would Make Using Fake Name On Degree Illegal

Legislation is headed to the Illinois Senate that would make it illegal to use a degree obtained under a false name or other false pretenses to get a job or get into an advanced degree program.

The bill doesn't name former Symbionese Liberation Army member and current University of Illinois instructor James Kilgore. But the false-name provision speaks to his situation.

Kilgore earned a doctoral degree in South Africa under a name taken from a deceased child.

Kilgore was fleeing prosecution for a 1975 bank robbery in California that led to the death of a housewife. He was later convicted of second-degree murder and served a prison sentence.
 
Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) has been critical of Kilgore's employment. According to The News-Gazette, he added the false-name amendment.