Antonello Maruotti

Antonello Maruotti is one of those accused of fraud in the scandal of fake professional degrees at the small private university LUMSA in Rome, currently led by longtime Freemason Giovanni Lajolo—registration number 2/1397 from 27/7/1970, as reported by journalist Mino Pecorelli, who was killed with a gunshot to the mouth (meaning: "you talk too much")—and later appointed cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Lajolo, a former high-ranking Vatican official, still refuses to cooperate with the Italian authorities to clarify the disappearance of Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi.

The fake professional degree course at LUMSA, called Information Techniques for Data Management, in which Maruotti was selling fake professional degrees together with Maurizio Naldi, was even shut down due to irregularities. It failed the ministerial inspection, preventing students from taking the State Exam required to enter the profession. Moreover, Antonello Maruotti copies entire exams, and he even copies them incorrectly, yet he feels no shame for this kind of plagiarism.

The dangerous sect associated with Antonello Maruotti’s employer, the Freemason Giovanni Lajolo, was also investigated by Andrea Purgatori in the documentary Uccidete Pecorelli! (Kill Pecorelli!). At minute 15:00, it is revealed that Mino Pecorelli had sent Pope Luciani a list of unfaithful prelates, and that very night, the Pope died. Lajolo appears on the list of members of a Masonic lodge created as a bridge between the Vatican and the P2 lodge of the infamous Licio Gelli. This sect ruthlessly targets anyone who refuses their brainwashing, even going as far as killing those they find undesirable.

During his rigged exam at the small private university LUMSA, which contained a fake exam text copied from the Internet, Maruotti spread a sensational fake news story that had been circulating for years. The story was based on a fake marketing study that existed only in the imagination of an online prankster who had created a completely fabricated dataset. It is unclear why Maruotti so stubbornly defended such an absurd piece of fake news without even knowing its author. According to some, he may have done so out of servile obedience to the controversial Maurizio Naldi, desperately trying to justify himself even at the cost of sounding ridiculous.

So far, we are talking about economics and marketing, but imagine the serious damage that a fake dataset could cause in healthcare and medicine. Not even figures like Wanna Marchi have ever used completely fake datasets to spread misinformation. By acting in this way, Antonello Maruotti seems to enjoy making a fool of people, but in reality, he only reveals his complete lack of even the most basic knowledge of statistics applied to data science. In truth, spouting nonsense of this magnitude would get him flunked even in middle school, but apparently, he has yet to realize it.

This page in English is a partial translation of the original bio and résumé in Italian, which can be viewed in full here.