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LA real estate developer Robert Flaxman, 66, hanged himself at his Malibu home last week - three years after being jailed for one month for paying $325,000 to Varsity Blues college admissions scam to get both his kids into school
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| 27 October 2022
| JACK NEWMAN
Posted on 10/28/2022 4:23:36 AM PDT by george76
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:23:36 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
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
To: george76
Win-Win for the kids.
Got into college AND inheriting a ton of money.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:30:31 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: TexasFreeper2009
The crime was he got caught.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:32:46 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
To: george76
"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."
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:33:20 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
To: TexasFreeper2009
I never understood the legal basis for prosecuting these people for fraud. Who exactly was the victim of this “fraud?”
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:33:54 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
To: george76
“Elitists spoiled dumb a## kids cant cut it so daddy pays for it” should be the headlines
To: TexasFreeper2009
When it dawned on the left that it subverts affirmative action. Can’t have that white privilege trumping POC privilege.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:35:31 AM PDT
by
cport
(How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
To: george76
"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."
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:35:42 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
To: Alberta's Child
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.
To: george76
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:39:03 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
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
Elite colleges have special gifts offices to accept "donations" for special considerations. The crime was that he paid the money to the wrong person.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:40:45 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
To: Alberta's Child
I never understood the legal basis for prosecuting these people for fraud. Who exactly was the victim of this “fraud?” The more deserving students who had their slots taken by dumber kids who had rich daddies.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:41:13 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(4,373,094 active user on Truth Social)
To: lowbridge
Any time a private citizen is charged with “honest services fraud,” the prosecutor should be laughed out of court.
“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.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:43:30 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
To: Alberta's Child
It seems that agents made money on the corruption, not the schools themselves.
That may be the crime.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:46:18 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
("The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies" now available on Amazon. Check it out!)
To: SamAdams76
Quite a few years ago the NY Times dropped that the price Harvard was asking for a "back door" route to an admission acceptance letter was $500K.
It's probably ten times that now.
$325K to admit 2 kids to an elite college would be pretty cheap.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:47:40 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
To: SamAdams76
Those “more deserving students” cannot be victims of fraud because
they aren’t legally entitled to those slots in college. 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.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:48:04 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
To: george76
Everything the left indoctrinates becomes criminal....universities, hollywood, media, politics, business, etc.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:55:17 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
To: Alberta's Child
Political witchhunt by the corrupt FBI.
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posted on
10/28/2022 4:55:22 AM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
To: Alberta's Child
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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