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  • FBI stumbled on the massive college bribe scandal when an executive tipped them off [tr]

    03/15/2019 3:51:24 AM PDT · by C19fan · 43 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 14, 2019 | Staff
    The biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted began with a tip from an executive investigators were targeting in an unrelated securities fraud probe, it was revealed today. The unnamed businessman told Boston authorities chasing down the market manipulation scheme that Rudy Meredith, the women’s soccer coach at Yale University, said he would designated the executive’s daughter as a recruit in exchange for cash, the official said. The official was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
  • U.S. college admissions scandal sparks $500 billion lawsuit

    03/14/2019 9:30:58 AM PDT · by C19fan · 75 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 14, 2019 | Staff
    The U.S. college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out. A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting emotional distress on everyone whose "rights to a fair chance at entrance to college" were stolen through their alleged conspiracy. In the largest known college admissions scandal in U.S. history, federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a California company made about $25 million by charging parents...