I have stumbled on a fake tournament report from 1994 when reviewing the results of some old tournaments:
uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php … 0-12528452
This is actually kind of amusing. According to the DOB data, I’d have to wonder whether the two “winners” were even alive when the tournament took place, given the scholastic tournaments many years later. It seems as though they had their ratings reset to zero after this, so the only one effected is the Soviet 
GM. Yes, his home state is listed as USSR.
Actually, Sarah had quite an impressive career until she started playing scholastics and RBOs. In her first tournament she beat Sherzer and finished with a rating of 3019/1.
Alex Relyea
We have over 120,000 rated events on MSA (with over 230,000 sections), there may be more than one ‘clunker’ out there.
Finding them is not all that easy, because there are just too many ways that they can be manipulated, deciding to do with one once it has been found is also not easy. (An event that was initially rated after 1/1/2004 is somewhat easier, we can just delete or correct it and then do a rerate.)
In this case it looks like the event was detected and the players ratings adjusted some time ago, one of the players went on to have a rating of 389/3 based on 3 games played in 2000, the other a rating of 848/4 based pm 4 games played in that same event in 2000. Based on that, perhaps we should delete the event cited above.
Maybe we should keep it on record, as the TD is probably still around.
It’s too bad that the GM in question had to deal with the adverse consequences, though. He would likely have hit 2700 (instead of topping out at 2692) if this “tournament” hadn’t been rated.
Alex Relyea
Perhaps it serves the GM right for allowing himself to be used in this farce.
Maybe the GM didn’t “allow” it at all. The whole thing could have been done behind his back, without his knowledge or consent.
Bill Smythe
As the GM is not American, and does not appear to have ever been a USCF member, I’d have to think that Bill’s scenario is more likely. Of course if he had any awareness of this, then I’d agree with Polly.
Alex Relyea
The names listed on the tournament report are somewhat familiar-sounding.
So the GM was sandbagging so he could be eligible for under-2700 prizes? 
Bill Smythe
I seem to recall that those events were intended (by the organizer) as a demonstration of how provisional ratings can be manipulated. In the case of the two beginners in those events, their ratings were later corrected. I don’t see any indication of a similar adjustment for the GM involved, but his rating appears to have rebounded fairly quickly.