Posted on 03/15/2019 5:23:58 AM PDT by Liz
They’re not so smug now. Manuel Henriques, founder and CEO of Hercules Capital and wife were arrested — among dozens of well-heeled parents charged with bribing their kids’ way into top colleges. They allegedly paid mastermind, William “Rick” Singer, $400,000 to get Isabelle into the prestigious school — as well as helping her younger sister cheat on her own college-entrance exam.
Singer allegedly talked Isabelle’s private prep school into allowing one of his crooked proctors to fly in to oversee the test. Then “unbeknownst to the school, he sat side-by-side with the daughter during the exam and provided her with answers,” court documents allege.....“he ‘gloated’ about the fact that they had cheated and gotten away with it,” the criminal complaint reads.
Henriquezes then allegedly worked with Singer to bribe Georgetown’s then-head tennis coach, Gordon Ernst, to have her designated a recruited athlete. Singer fabricated an essay and application for Isabelle that falsely claimed she played “club tennis” through high school, held a “top 50 ranking” in junior girls tennis for the United States Tennis Association and was on the USTA all-academic team for her junior and senior years, prosecutors allege. Less than two weeks later, she received a letter that her admission was “likely......the criminal complaint alleges Isabelle was a willing participant. She says she interned for her father’s firm in 2018, is currently an investment-banking intern at Compass Point Research & Trading — and is slated to be a summer wealth-management analyst at Big Apple financial-services company Jefferies.
Isabelle’s Georgetown acceptance was apparently such a success that her parents also allegedly paid to have Singer’s proctor repeat the cheating stunt for their younger daughter on both the ACT and SAT exams. Henriques and his wife turned themselves in Tuesday and were each released on $500,000 bond.
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Hahahaha!
Seems it’s mostly Dems...waiting to hear from politicians. ..or..about them!
he sat side-by-side with the daughter during the exam
What the hell? On what planet do students have adults sitting “side by side” with them during exams? Are they KIDDING?
I agree, but I think what troubles most FReeper types is the elitism, not the wealth. Then there's arrogant, shallow children they're raising.
Success and prosperity are gifts from God. Money without any class or grace is a very ugly thing.
The days of the Elite Garbage People rubbing their garbage elite degrees in everyone's faces are over.
No wonder the Federales are mad...
They gotta be dimocrats!!
Nancy’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, graduated from USC’s prestigious Annenberg School......wonder how she got in?
Anyone who gets through college debt free these days has good reason to gloat.
I have a friend I met when I was an exchange student to Argentina. She married a Salvadorean and moved there. She has worked for years for the UN, and I believe her hubby was injured in the wars in the 80s in El Salvador.
She’s a liberal UN employee, and one son is at Penn state and the other was just accepted into Harvard. WTF? I can’t figure it out. Sure, they’re bright, but I can’t help but think its her UN connections that got them in.
Starting to get insight into the recent buzz amongst some of us old people - doctors of today aren’t as smart as those who took care of us fifty years ago......
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