Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is one *unnamed* whale (spent millions) family with a kid at Yale (I think?) who wore a wire. I’d like to know why the FBI and prosecution is shielding their identity. I gaurentee it’s someone very famous and connected.

Is it Tobin? He is not actually named in the recent rounds of arrests, just as the whistleblower right?

I think she's referring to Tobin....he definitely wore a wire with the Yale soccer coach.

They wired the whole room!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is one *unnamed* whale (spent millions) family with a kid at Yale (I think?) who wore a wire. I’d like to know why the FBI and prosecution is shielding their identity. I gaurentee it’s someone very famous and connected.

I'd take your guarantee more seriously if you could spell it. Plenty of very rich people out there who are completely unknown.

Are you that person?

The whale should be named

Ahoy there! Have you seen the white whale?

[Anonymous]

Do you think that Tobin’s kids at Yale would be asked to leave and would the kid at medical school - investigation into the MCAT now?

[Anonymous]

From this article, it looks unlikely that Isabel Henriquez is going to be able to complete her degree at Georgetown.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgetown-rich-kid-isabelle-henriquez-gloated-after-allegedly-cheating-sats

[Anonymous]

A well-written take on the scandal:

They Had It Coming

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A well-written take on the scandal:

They Had It Coming

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/

Good article.

For this reason, after having read the 200-page affidavit many times and trying to be as objective as possible, I had to conclude that the uncontested winners of Worst People (So Far) to Be Indicted are Lori Loughlin, an actress, and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, a designer. When a college counselor at their daughter’s high school realized something was suspicious about her admission to USC and asked the girl about it, the parents roared onto campus in such a rage that they almost blew up the whole scam.

But the college counselor at the girls’ high school had always doubted that the first girl rowed crew; when the second one got into the same school for the same reason, she realized that something suspicious was going on. She confronted the girl.


The counselor was acting honorably. Loughlin and Giannulli—if the affidavit is to be believed—were in the midst of a criminal operation. Yet instead of hanging his head in shame, Giannulli apparently roared onto the high-school campus apoplectic. Singer got a panicked email from his USC contact: “I just want to make sure that, you know, I don’t want the … parents getting angry and creating any type of disturbance at the school … I just don’t want anybody going into … [the daughter’s high school] you know, yelling at counselors. That’ll shut everything—that’ll shut everything down.”

It’s hell on Earth for college counselors when people like this show up angry that their kid didn’t get an acceptance from Williams. But to endure it because you’ve gotten in the way of a giant scam? Hideous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A well-written take on the scandal:

They Had It Coming

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/

Good read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A well-written take on the scandal:

They Had It Coming

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/

Good read.

+1 rich game the system. I wonder how many colleges are taking a closer look at the "athlete" list.

And this part:

it was possible for everyone with enough money to get a diagnosis that would grant their kid two full days—instead of four hours—to take the SAT, and the colleges would never know. Today, according to Slate, “in places like Greenwich, Conn., and certain zip codes of New York City and Los Angeles, the percentage of untimed test-taking is said to be close to 50 percent.” Taking a test under normal time limits in one of these neighborhoods is a sucker’s game—you’ve voluntarily handicapped yourself.

[Anonymous]

Another doozy..

Here is John B. Wilson, the founder and CEO of a private-equity and real-estate-development firm, on getting his son into USC using a fake record of playing water polo: “Thanks again for making this happen!” And, “What are the options for the payment? Can we make it for consulting or whatever … so that I can pay it from the corporate account?” He can. “Awesome!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not Tobin. That reporting detailed Tobin. There is a name out there being protected because they “cooperated”. That’s some serious backchannel transactional favors to have your name protected.

Yes. I think that name isn't being released because of backchannel favors. I wonder if it is someone connected to the administration.

[Anonymous]

Separate from the scandal, I guess, but MD man bought Harvard fencing coach's house, way above market value, never lived there: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Separate from the scandal, I guess, but MD man bought Harvard fencing coach's house, way above market value, never lived there: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

All the stories are going to come out now. If I were a.coach at an Ivy I'd be worried.

[Anonymous]

“This week, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) called on the IRS Commissioner in this letter to fully enforce the tax laws against those involved. Perhaps Republicans and Democrats can agree on something after all.

They outline several types of transactions between parents and the Key Worldwide Foundation to facilitate the illicit payments. These include payments made from private foundations and from businesses for what appear to be personal, illicit benefit, as well as donations of stock arranged to appear as charitable donations.

The tax angles are huge, and the potential taxes, penalties and interest seem serious. Criminal tax charges are possible, and they could be serious in themselves.”

[Anonymous]

Has this big time, very wealthy family name been identified yet? If not, why not? WSJ a couple weeks ago:

The initial tip led investigators to Rudy Meredith, the head coach of women’s soccer at Yale. He had worked with Mr. Singer in January 2018 to get the daughter of a California family into Yale by pretending she was a soccer player, according to prosecutors. The family paid Mr. Singer $1.2 million, according to the affidavit; Mr. Meredith’s share was $400,000. The family wasn’t identified. Mr. Meredith didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In April, Mr. Meredith met with the tipster parent, who was wearing a wire, at a hotel room in Boston, the person familiar with the matter said. During that meeting, Mr. Meredith offered a place at Yale for the parent’s daughter in exchange for $450,000, according to the person and court documents.

Afterward, Mr. Meredith began cooperating, authorities said.

The tipster parent has not been charged in the college case.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tip-the-yale-coach-and-the-wire-how-the-college-admissions-scam-unraveled-11552524237

[Anonymous]

I think the "tipster parent" is referring to the original snitch, Morrie Tobin. But the soccer player family who donated $1.2 million isn't the Tobin family. Why is the gov protecting that name?