Posted on 10/28/2022 4:23:36 AM PDT by george76
Robert Flaxman was found hanged in his Malibu home during a welfare check.
The 66-year-old pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy over admissions scandal.
He had his daughter's ACT exam corrected by a proctor to inflate her score..
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LA real estate developer Robert Flaxman, who was charged in the college admissions scandal alongside Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, has killed himself.
The 66-year-old from Los Angeles was found hanged in his Malibu home last week after his friends requested a welfare check.
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Flaxman was among 53 people charged with paying Rick Singer, the mastermind of the scheme, to get their kids into prestigious schools.
The 2019 indictment against him charged him with first paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of San Diego in 2016, and then paying an additional $75,000 to increase his daughter's ACT scores.
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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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Flaxman's lawyers say he agreed to the testing scheme because his daughter's test scores were too low to get into college.
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More than 50 people have been charged in the scheme, which involves wealthy and famous parents accused of paying bribes to rig their children's test scores or to get them admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes.
Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman, 59, served 11 days of a 14-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges for paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to falsify daughter Sophia's SAT scores.
Felicity admitted to paying admissions officer William Singer via his nonprofit Key Worldwide Foundation.
The money went to a proctor to correct wrong answers on Sophia's SATs. Authorities said the nonprofit was set up as a front to accept bribes.
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I have never understood this whole thing. The children of donors and alumni have always been given special consideration at colleges.
When exactly did that become a crime
Win-Win for the kids.
Got into college AND inheriting a ton of money.
The crime was he got caught.
I never understood the legal basis for prosecuting these people for fraud. Who exactly was the victim of this “fraud?”
“Elitists spoiled dumb a## kids cant cut it so daddy pays for it” should be the headlines
When it dawned on the left that it subverts affirmative action. Can’t have that white privilege trumping POC privilege.
exactly, and why did the parents care so much about getting them into these particular colleges anyway? there are 100’s of great colleges around the US that would of taken their kids.
That’s very sad.
When exactly did that become a crime
Elite colleges have special gifts offices to accept "donations" for special considerations. The crime was that he paid the money to the wrong person.
The more deserving students who had their slots taken by dumber kids who had rich daddies.
“Honest services fraud” criminal statutes are intended to deal with very specific cases involving public officials, not private citizens in cases where they can’t be charged with fraud because there are no victims.
It seems that agents made money on the corruption, not the schools themselves.
That may be the crime.
It's probably ten times that now.
$325K to admit 2 kids to an elite college would be pretty cheap.
And since colleges really have no objective system for ranking applicants, there’s no way to accurately say who was “more deserving” anyway.
The real kicker here is that most of the students who got into these schools through these “fraud” cases were doing fine and getting good grades. So obviously they were well qualified to be there.
Everything the left indoctrinates becomes criminal....universities, hollywood, media, politics, business, etc.
Political witchhunt by the corrupt FBI.
The victims are the children whose parents are saying, by their actions, you are deficient.
That’s not a crime. That said, it’s pretty horrible.
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