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David Weissman @WeissmanWrites

Former Investigative Projects Reporter at @TheSunNews. Previously with The York Dispatch. @urichmond '14.

Joined June 2015
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David Weissman@WeissmanWrites
15 Nov 2024
NEW/ The inside story of the man who convinced FAMU he was gifting the school the largest HBCU donation ever, now known to be fraudulent. This is the most complete look yet at how he pulled it off and why myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

His historic donations to CCU and FAMU were shams. How an unknown Texan deceived colleges

“And by the way, the money is in the bank,” Gerami proclaimed in front of the $237 million novelty check. It wasn’t, the school later determined. Read the inside story of the man a fraud expert...

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1/ Personal news: Today is my last day with @TheSunNews . These past 7 years have been amazing, working my dream job as an investigative reporter in city and state I quickly fell in love with.
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2/ I've moved up to the Philly area with my family, but Myrtle Beach will always feel like home now. I'm incredibly proud of everything I've accomplished with my reporting here and am so thankful to have worked with so many talented coworkers and supportive editors.
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3/ I'm most thankful, of course, to all the people in this community who have trusted me to tell your stories. It's a privilege I never take for granted.
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Another major development in what is shaping up to be one of the biggest police corruption cases in Horry County history
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30 Apr 2025
Horry County terminates longtime employee for ‘conduct unbecoming of an officer’ myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…
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S/o to @awritingbeth who I understand spotted this note that appears to state “Act like a victim” and “Camera.”
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Recently won the award for best investigative journalism in SC for my coverage of the fraudulent donations to CCU and FAMU. The irony of the award was not lost on me…
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Seeing some people highlighting this last line in my story about Gerami* suggesting he may make another donation. I encourage all engagement, but just want to say there’s a reason I ended the piece there. To fully understand the context, it’s important to read the whole article
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23 Nov 2024
Gregory Germani, the man whose $237M donation to Florida A&M University was fake, says another multi-million dollar promise "might" happen "I may just cut a straight check, not stock or anything like that ...But I wouldn’t want to be in the limelight" myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…
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NEW/ The inside story of the man who convinced FAMU he was gifting the school the largest HBCU donation ever, now known to be fraudulent. This is the most complete look yet at how he pulled it off and why myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

His historic donations to CCU and FAMU were shams. How an unknown Texan deceived colleges

“And by the way, the money is in the bank,” Gerami proclaimed in front of the $237 million novelty check. It wasn’t, the school later determined. Read the inside story of the man a fraud expert...

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5/ "The money is in the bank!" he proclaimed at FAMU's commencement. But it was unverified shares in his hemp company. I spoke to graduates about the moment and how it impacted their big day myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

‘It was magical.’ FAMU grads describe $237M commencement gift, later called ‘fraudulent’

The first-generation college graduate’s family group chat blew up after FAMU’s commencement speaker’s announcement. “Who is this man?” and “How did he get all this money?”

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6/ Hope you enjoy the investigative series, and if you're interested, check out my previous thread on the situation, which includes all my earlier coverage in the immediate aftermath of the announcement x.com/WeissmanMBO/status/178…

David Weissman@WeissmanWrites
8 May 2024
NEW/ A Texas businessman made national news over the weekend with a historic $237 million donation to Florida A&M. But some are new questioning if it's legit, partly because of his prior failed donation to CCU myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…
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NEW/ A Texas businessman made national news over the weekend with a historic $237 million donation to Florida A&M. But some are new questioning if it's legit, partly because of his prior failed donation to CCU myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

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NEW/ The latest in the strange saga surrounding what was initially reported as a historic donation to FAMU. The gift, whether it has any value or not, has been pulled myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

Failed CCU donor pulls dubious gift to FL college ahead of potentially damaging report

The $237 million check the donor declared was in the bank turned out to represent potentially worthless stocks. Now those stocks are gone.

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David Weissman@WeissmanWrites
6 Aug 2024
NEW/ FAMU investigation into historic $237 million donation deems the gift fraudulent. Scathing report paints donor as a high-level con artist and university officials as ignoring basic protocols myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…
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NEW/ FAMU investigation into historic $237 million donation deems the gift fraudulent. Scathing report paints donor as a high-level con artist and university officials as ignoring basic protocols myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

Scathing report rules failed CCU donor’s historic gift to FL college was fraud. Here’s why

The $237 million donation that would’ve been the largest ever to an HBCU ended up costing the school greatly. Read major takeaways from the independent investigation.

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2/ Tropical Storm Debby will likely overshadow this story, but this represent the strongest public criticism yet of Gregory Gerami, the Texas hemp farming CEO I've been investigating since last year when I linked him to failed $95M CCU donation
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Currently on vacation, so unable to dig into this right now. Press release doesn’t mention $237M gift announced at commencement that quickly fell apart, but hard to imagine it didn’t play a role
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Been reporting on this for a while because the purported donor failed to make a similar promised donation to CCU years earlier. Check out my latest on how CCU could’ve saved FAMU this embarrassment by being more transparent myrtlebeachonline.com/news/l…

CCU is hiding investigation of failed donor. Could FL college been spared embarrassment?

Prior to terminating its relationship with Gerami and years before he showed up at Florida A&M, CCU conducted an internal investigation it’s refusing to release.

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