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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He probably did much worse things, and eventually his sins caught up to him.
—-> These over-indulged rich kids took the other kids’ places.
Just like minority admissions that overlook merit, grades, test scores, to base admission on a skin color.
Just like rich alumni’s kids getting in.
It’s a corrupt system
It’s worth noting that some of these parents may have been smart enough to make the “charitable donation” while NOT listing it as a charitable contribution on their tax returns. There is no exposure to a tax fraud charge in that case.
USC is the Mississippi State of the West.
It’s that they expect special treatment better than us.
See Post #17.
Hope those kids think it was worth it.
“Flaxman was among 53 people charged with paying Rick Singer, the mastermind of the scheme, to get their kids into prestigious schools.“
So, why isn’t it Rick Singer who is swinging from a rope?
The only explanation that made sense for me was if these people claimed they were making a donation to a 501c3 and then claimed it as a deduction on their taxes.
Otherwise, I hear you.
In which case, some clever attorney should be offering to represent those kids in a fraud case against the Rich and Famous - not the Feds.
Or courses have gotten so easy and grading has gotten so soft and they are paying for enough help that they are doing well. Athletes who have much lower scores are doing fine because they know which courses to take, have tutoring, professors go easy on them, and they have access to archived old exams which sometimes aren't changed from year to year.
When did the University of San Diego become a so-called “prestigious” school? If you say so. LOL!
Another dumb AF Canadian, who can’t tell the difference between right and wrong.
Even after it’s explained to him... slowly.
Again, there's nothing wrong with bribing the pimps who masquerade as college admins, coaches or teachers. One simply disguises it as an endowment, etc.
But Singer was laundering the money through his personally held charity. The parents contributed to that, which made them complicit. Then the parents deducted it from their taxes.
Again, none of this was revealed in the original newscasts.
This must be why graduates of Ivy league colleges seem so woke and retarded these days. Because the kids ARE woke and stuoid, whose parents bought their way in,
Another dumb AF American, who assumes every wrongdoing is supposed to be treated as a crime under the law.
P.S. -- I'm not a Canadian, so I have no idea what the hell that's supposed to mean.
Suicide is a selfish act, prayers for his family, his kids will blame themselfs.
My point is that the school could never make an objective case that the kids weren't qualified to be there.
If these weren't wealthy people with a lot to lose, they could have fought the charges and exposed the whole college admissions process as a scam. Just drag up one retarded student after another to the witness stand, then have the admissions officer testify to a jury how the hell they were ever admitted to the school in the first place.
I was surprised to learn in this case that USC is a college. I thought it was an athletic club. :-P
Okay, so you’re American but haven’t yet learned that lies and misrepresentations on legal documents are actionable?
Sorry I called you a dumb AF Canadian when you’re actually a dumb AF American.
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