Leave. Seriously.

When he inevitably gets in trouble, he will use his manipulative talents and charm to pin the blame on you, and most likely will be believed. Even if he doesn't get in trouble, he may well decide to cut you down because you know too much. If you don't reveal his true character, he can get away with whatever he pleases; if you do you've done something unethical that he can use against you. Managing this situation will take nearly as much time and energy as your job, and a sucessful outcome isn't guaranteed. My experience with such people is that the only good way to deal with them is to put great distance between them and you, so unless there's some prospect of him not taking the job at the last minute, you'll have to be the one to make tracks.

Without revealing any details, can you simply & quietly explain to your bosses that you were this guy's therapist (or whatever), and that it would be unethical and unhealthy for you to work with him in any way? Maybe you could seek a transfer? I know it sucks, but in the long run, you'll be better off. Even if you weren't his therapist and had learned that he was a sociopath thru other means, leaving would still be the better option. The ability such people have to corrupt everything around them is astonishing.

Let's exaggerate a bit: your workplace is Germany, he's Hitler, you're Jewish. Either get rid of Hitler, or get out of Germany. Really, how well do you think this fellow would have done as a NAZI? Reading between the lines of your letter, you've described a dangerous man whom you cannot fight (except by being truly devious) and about whom you cannot raise an alarm.

Maybe you'll be OK, but it sounds like a choice between selling your soul (ratting him out), having it crushed (staying), or leaving. Maybe you could do as Ken Erfourth says, if the organization is big enough for the both of you, but when/if the shit hits the fan, people won't like that you did nothing to stop the sociopath! Can't you just say "Hey, that guy lied on his resume!"? Guess not.

And is there no professional association for this unspecified theraputic profession of yours from which you might seek advice?

1. An very abrupt resignation, possibly accompanied by the statement "I cannot work with X" might be a good way (even the only way) to send a signal about X.

2. Will you be able to explain your sudden resignation to your new employer, since Mr. X is no longer on the scene?

3. Are you "Fake Letter!" people the same people who complain about Tom Tomorrow "phoning it in"?

I'd like to second what 'Anonymous' said - (1) Hockney's deaf, and (2) visual aesthetic 'literacy' ain't what it should be. I don't see the connection with the iPod, though. I suspect the ignorance came first.

Since we (the US) flat-out STOLE a BIG JUICY CHUNK of Mexico in a war we provoked for JUST THAT PURPOSE, I've always figured it was fair game for the Mexicans to try to sneak back in. If they're illegal immigrants, then a big chunk of the southwest is illegal territory, right? I mean, if China were to steal California, Oregon and Washington sometime in the next century, you all from the other 47 would try to get back in, right? Even if you lost the war fair and square, you'd still figure the West was part of the USA, right?

On the other hand, since I'm a bleeding heart liberal tree hugger with some degree of national pride, I think the nearly 300 million people we have here is already too many and I think the poor among us 300 mil could use a little wage leverage. I think it would be cool if we could have trees, animals, clean air, a living wage and all that other Progressive type stuff.

But back to the immigration question: as long as Mexico and central america are in the state they're in, an OCEAN between us wouldn't be enough to keep the poor out, let alone a friggin' wall. And as long as we let Capital do as it pleases, the downward pressure on wages will continue unabated. If we don't fix the economics, then we fix nothing.

I guess you could think of it like Antabuse for people who crave fat....

Basically, though, this is utterly disgusting. I wonder how it would react with Olestra?

Another reason to stay off public transportation. And out of swimming pools.

In fact, ONE gigantic fusion reactor could supply ALL of our energy needs. For the sake of safety, we'll put it, say, 93 million mies from earth and then just use collectors to convert the energy into usable electricity. We could have centrally located banks of collectors and smaller local banks of collectors on roofs or otherwise underutilized surfaces.

The problems of collector efficiency and energy storage need some work, but those issues PALE in comparison to the long term problems of how to store nuclear waste and/or what to do about all the carbon compounds we're dumping into the atmosphere.

That's the solution my extra investable dollars are going towards, anyway.

Yep, he's a Narcissist of some stripe. Avoid feeding his ego at all costs.

Your gaydar isn't wrong, even when not necessarily gay N's often register. Sometimes they're actually bi, sometimes they just act like it because they get twice the attention that way, sometimes it's just because their boundries are a mess.

Anyway, don't even think about this dude. Nothin' but trouble there.

I sort of agree with had_enough, but before too long the rats deserting the apparently sinking ship of Bush will start saying pretty much the same thing: it was Clinton's fault!