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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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/

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/

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 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

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.