What is the Federal crime here?
. Is it because taxpayer money is involved?
Crimes like robbery, rape, murder, assaults are not Federal crimes unless directed at the Govt or their agents. -Tom
The parents involved parents took tax deductions on purported "donations" that were actually bribes.
“What is the Federal crime here?”
Good question. This is the smoke screen—the squirrel. What’s the DOJ trying to cover up besides their involvement in a coup to overthrow the POTUS?
I assume the federal crimes are wire fraud, mail fraud, and RICO Act (with mail and wire fraud as the predicate acts).
>>What is the Federal crime here?
Not sure either - and as far as I am concerned if a *private* college accepts large donations in exchange for admittance, its probably well within their rights - but one charge that may sting here is if they basically paid to get their kid in, and then wrote off that $500K ‘donation’ as a charitable contribution, that is definitely fraud - you can’t get something of value in exchange fora tax-deductible contribution.
Besides that, haven’t seen which specific laws were broken.