My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: California (optionally: New York, New Jersey, Washington, and Colorado)
Legal experts please help!
What are the legal consequences of the following:
- Lying about undergraduate degree field in a resume, online and paper job applications. (one has a degree in X, but claims degree in Y. Neither X nor Y are legally protected fields with licensure requirements like healthcare or law) (No government jobs, no government entities involved).
- Providing (if asked for) fake transcripts / diplomas to back up above claim? The university whose diplomas will be furnished is a foreign entity with no legal standing in the United States. This is also the same institution the subject attended for his real degree, and thus will be furnishing near real transcripts.
- Creating a fictitious entity (LLC / website) for the purpose of furnishing false past employment. Fictitious employees (including HR personnel, managers) within this real entity are to verify the subject's past "work experience". The LLC might also simultaneously engage in legitimate business activities at a later date.
Any pointers to laws one must be familiar with regarding the above. The subject is an otherwise honest person with high ethical standards and a clean legal slate. He does not want writing in that slate at this stage, but nevertheless keen on the above MO for success in his profession. The subject also has excellent skills to perform the job if provided per employer expectations. The subject. while not knowing of any person firsthand, is convinced that several people within his chosen profession have done the above (or similar) to get ahead. He further idolizes a few people (well known icons) that he claims succeeded without any college education. If they can, he feels, so can he.
Thanks in advance.

