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 can’t see this being the reason he hanged himself. It is thirty day jail sentence and a $100,000 fine, ala Lori Laughlin.
I’d want to look at his books to see if he made any large bets on real estate that he lost his shirt over.
When this college admissions “scandal” was all over the news a while back, the media acted like it was the crime of the century. It was bizarre, given that these are celebrities, and probably liberal. I guess white and rich was the issue with the media glee.
“Who exactly was the victim of this ‘fraud?’”
Middle- and lower-class families whose kids could’ve been students based on merit and scores. These over-indulged rich kids took the other kids’ places.
His approach involved actual fraud.
But yeah, many have paid much more to get a dull kiddo into a college of choice.
Maybe I’m out of touch, but when did the University of San Diego become an elite university?
$250K to get your son into the University of San Diego? Is USD a secret portal to the world of the Masters of the Universe? Stanford maybe but USD, WTH?
Many of them had someone else take the SAT for their child. That is fraud and “injures” those that took the test legitimately.
I’d suggest the fraud was the college thinking they had taken in one more applicant for their legitimately qualified bucket, instead of one of their “otherwise of value” acceptance buckets. Though didn’t these fraudulent applicants involve the falsification of athletic achievement as well?
But selective “make an example” especially harsh sentences for widely perpetrated practices are usually dubious IMO.
Or if he even did it himself.
See Post #17. Those families couldn’t be fraud victims because they weren’t legally entitled to a place in the school.
That’s possible. Many of these business men walk the line of gray.
I don’t see how paying someone to get you into college is a crime. Did the agents get money that belonged to the schools? No.
“...they can’t be charged with fraud because there are no victims.”
I can only speak for myself, but my opinion of USC dropped a few notches upon learning that rich parents, any rich parents (not just alumni) can buy their kids a ticket to that school. So perhaps USC is a victim?
Bribing college officials has always been legal, as long as one did it in the form of a "donation." But Singer and company went beyond that.
3 years later he hangs himself ?
Something else’s may be going on..
>I have never understood this whole thing. The children of donors and alumni have always been given special consideration at colleges.
Colleges know it too, and they let the kids in because of the expected donations they get later. That said, those kids must have been dummmmmmmmb.
I think there is much more to this story, 3 years after the fact he hangs himself NOPE something more current is going on here!!!
The victims are the children whose parents are saying, by their actions, you are deficient.
Agree.
Sounds like Flaxman couldn’t live with that action.
If you cheat in school you are subject to disciplinary action by the school. They don’t call the police and have you charged with a crime.
A. The person who did not get into a particular college because this person boosted their child ahead in line with false credentials.
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