In a series of communications posted on Usenet,
the CEO of Turiss LLC, a Mr.Philip Mellinger as
described he
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....has over a series of weeks and days posed
as a medical doctor, insisting that he is trained
in psychology and medicine, even going so far as
to implicate and diagnose various participants in
newsgroups to an extent that he has insisted
they "come in to his office" immediately so he can
cure them in one of his therapy sessions. He has
described the urgency of his role at the hospital and
goes on further to detail how he must "make his
rounds". We have also been given the privilege of
hearing about his I.Q. which allowed him to zoom
through medical school.

And yet, when pressed for details by "Mark IV",
Mr. Mellinger then simply dismisses this psychotic
break by saying..."Wait a minute, you outed me! Fine job my hat's off
for serious sleuth
work.

OK OK I used the MD as M.D. with the first one being MD for Maryland.
I am not a doctor. I am an historian and a senior software project
manager."

In another VERY SERIOUS CRIMINAL EPISODE,
and break from reality, Mr. Mellinger, CEO of Turiss
Corporation in Virginia, illegally obtained personal
information about one of the posters and then called
an 80 year old, blind, diabetic mother and threatened
her to such an extent that she was sent to an
urgent care facility. The police subsequently traced
the call back to Philip Mellinger's home in Maryland.
He later apologized, but in further posts which have
appeared to come from him, he has threatened to
shot the elderly woman.

In another instance of death threats, and delusions
of psychotic paranoia, Mr.Philip Mellinger, CEO of
Turiss Corporation in Virginia, when invited to attend
a luncheon one afternoon, responded with the following:
"We will shoot to kill if you arrive unannounced!!"

Finally, Mr.Philip Mellinger of Ellicott City, MD. and
CEO of Turiss Corporation in Virginia has tried to
explain his psychological problems by revealing that
he "has recently gone through a lawsuit". Apparently
this has caused him to slip into a narcissistic regression,
wherein he is compelled to write usenet communications
(which are message board postings), and he uses many
different nickname "identities" to stalk and harass the
other participants within various discussion groups.
But Mr.Mellinger isn't doing a solo act. He freely
admits that a business associate of his, (another
Turiss LLC employee?) is assisting him as they run
amuck across the internet in a concentrated effort of
disruption, insults and the placement of malware viruses
to data-mine personal information. It is still unclear
whether his partner "Ari Silverstein" is a business
associate, or yet another of Mr.Mellinger's personalities.

One has to wonder what the real mission statement
is of this TURISS LLC company is, and who is really
watching the ship.

---
Mark IV