Posted on 10/28/2022 4:23:36 AM PDT by george76
In many states it is illegal to participate in activities where someone impersonates someone else via signature or other means of intentional deception. It really comes down to the state, but I think it does qualify as a crime in many areas.
Wonder why he really killed himself
1. Does "actionable" equal CRIMINAL in this case?
2. What "legal documents" were involved here? Please post a copy of a USC application where it says in clear language that the applicant signs the document under penalty of perjury, etc.
3. The only one who can demonstrate any financial loss here is the applicant and family members who misled the school. Even if they didn't pay a penny to bribe the third-party agent as part of the deception, they still paid an application fee to the school. And they've paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition and fees to the school on behalf of the student, too.
I would suggest that the "crime" here was the equivalent of using a fake name to order a magazine subscription for someone who can't even read. The magazine publisher got the money, the magazine was delivered, and nobody should give a sh!t if the name on the mailing label was fake.
Maybe so, but I would think this would only apply in cases where a financial loss or other tangible loss can be demonstrated by the victim. In fact, one of the foundational principles of English common law is that a party to a legal process must demonstrate actual damages in order to have any standing. You can't sue a motorist for running a red light, for example, unless he actually hits you while you're crossing the street.
I know a lawyer who has a habit of signing silly names like "Donald J. Trump" on credit card receipts when he is in restaurants. I asked him how that could possibly be legal, and he said: "It doesn't matter what you sign on the stupid receipt, unless you go back later and try to avoid paying for the charge on your bill. This signature doesn't mean a damn thing to the merchant or the credit card company."
This raised a big red flag with me because this was the exact same charge filed by prosecutors on Robert Mueller's team in the various cases they prosecuted against "Russian actors interfering in U.S. elections" back in 2017-2019. Basically, the perpetrators in those cases never violated any U.S. election laws ... but they were prosecuted for posting political messages on the internet using fake American names. Does this sound familiar? Under that standard, almost everyone here on FreeRepublic can be charged with "honest services fraud" for using aliases as screen names.
I hope "AAABEST" has a birth certificate with that name on it. Otherwise, the FBI is going to be knocking on his door soon. :-P
Paying $325,000 to Varsity Blues college admissions scam to get both his kids into school.
When taking short cuts you get short results.
Flaxman admitted to conspiring with William ‘Rick’ Singer to have his daughter’s ACT exam corrected by a proctor, thereby fraudulently inflating the score
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What did the proctor get out of it? Besides money.
But isn’t the victim someone on the edge of the cut that doesn’t get accepted because the are leap frogged by someone with fraudulent test scores?
Think of it like a car dealership that signs a contract to sell you a specific car … and when you show up a week later to pick it up, you find out they've sold it to someone else. In this case you could take legal action against the dealership for breach of contract (a civil court matter), but you aren’t a victim of fraud because you didn’t own the car when it was “taken” from you.
What if we are talking about a public university with state funds?
I don’t think that matters. If anything, a state school has almost no basis for complaining about lying on applications because these schools routinely unqualified applicants on the basis of their race and/or gender. In fact, the practice is so widespread that the school can’t possibly claim that ANYONE was not qualified to attend.
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