I believe it was said this scam ran since 2011 and at 25 million
I looked it up and you're right... $25 million and he started scamming people into colleges in 2011.
Although I still think my larger point holds. I just don't see evidence that is on the scale where 100's of people are going to jail.
If this was USC I would agree with you, but UCLA is a public university that receives a good bit of money from the California tax payers. So, we do have a right to full and transparent disclosures.
If the two situations happened it doesn’t mean they have to be linked to each other. If someone is unethical it is unlikely it is just one time or one situationHow ironic that the little people are trying to throw their limited financial (taxpayer) weight around in revenge for rich people throwing their actual financial weight around. Just eat your cake and move on, will you?
If you think you're entitled to anything about Cromwell at this point, read the California Public Records Act. And since anything relating to Cromwell would almost assuredly implicate the student Isackson, also read the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. If there is eventually a finding of wrongdoing against Cromwell, the public will probably be entitled to some info, but not until then. In the meantime, people will have to continue speculating that Singer conspired with Grandma Annenberg to pay a $5 million bribe to UCLA to build the new stadium while Isackson was still in middle school - just in case the $50 million she gave to USC ended up being insufficient to get her in over there. Man, that took some serious forethought.
Big Sis is in charge of the UC schools, keep an eye on her.Interesting to note that for four the eight schools are in California. A nice target for Betsy and her crew, although only two are public.
Someone will probably file a lawsuit saying their player had top grades, test score, played ECNL and DA in her career and may have been ranked but didn't get in because of this. Huge lawsuit waiting to happen.In my experience it’s difficult to keep a secret that three people know. I just doubt if hundreds were in the know... it could possibly stay secret very long.
Moreover that this guy Singer set up a non-profit in his own name so parents could write off donations and having parents transfer Facebook shares directly to him (as #41’s parents are said to have done) makes me think Jonny Law already knows who and how much was paid to play... and have given the schools a list of names they want records on. If the Universities are bracing for hundreds of more names to go public, so far they don’t seem to be behaving like it.
Really the most interesting part to this whole story is UCLA because that girl was put on the roster and the coach of the team still has her job.
Someone will probably file a lawsuit saying their player had top grades, test score, played ECNL and DA in her career and may have been ranked but didn't get in because of this. Huge lawsuit waiting to happen.
or, everyone starts to lose interest and stops talking about it and the problem floats away and all go back to business as usual.The challenge with a suit like that by a single player is that is very difficult to prove that HER spot was lost to a specific person. That's why the two Stanford students who are suing are trying to create a plaintiff class. If there were a class action suit of DA/ECNL players, they might have a chance BUT - and this is key - there can't be more plaintiffs than roster slots or the claim of damages would be much, much harder (esp, in the UCLA case, they can just say, "hey, you would not have be given that slot. It would have gone unfilled" and that argument is compelling. It is easier to take the general student argument and say that the slots that were not the unique athletic slots were taken from them, making a difficult admissions process even harder.
I also think that there is a chance of suits over the fraud and misuse of the position since a taxpayer - or taxpayer class - can claim a misuse of public funds (even private schools have state and federal money in buckets coming through the doors). I anticipate waves of legal developments on this story that is far from over.
It’s getting real, with the first round of arraignments going down in federal court yesterday.here come more Feds...college admins are sh**ting themselves, trust me:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...tment-investigating-yale-schools-college-scam
That's when people start singing.It’s getting real, with the first round of arraignments going down in federal court yesterday.
They will be singing like they caught the HOLY GHOST in church shouting " PRAISE JESUS"!!!!That's when people start singing.
Correct me if i'm wrong but there are unlimited roster spots but only 14 scholarships. Some schools roster 25-28 while some roster 30 plus.The challenge with a suit like that by a single player is that is very difficult to prove that HER spot was lost to a specific person. That's why the two Stanford students who are suing are trying to create a plaintiff class. If there were a class action suit of DA/ECNL players, they might have a chance BUT - and this is key - there can't be more plaintiffs than roster slots or the claim of damages would be much, much harder (esp, in the UCLA case, they can just say, "hey, you would not have be given that slot. It would have gone unfilled" and that argument is compelling. It is easier to take the general student argument and say that the slots that were not the unique athletic slots were taken from them, making a difficult admissions process even harder.
I also think that there is a chance of suits over the fraud and misuse of the position since a taxpayer - or taxpayer class - can claim a misuse of public funds (even private schools have state and federal money in buckets coming through the doors). I anticipate waves of legal developments on this story that is far from over.
Correct me if i'm wrong but there are unlimited roster spots but only 14 scholarships. Some schools roster 25-28 while some roster 30 plus.
Roster spots are not unlimited. There is a practical number and, while most schools carry ~30 to 35 on the high side, there is a financial impact to the program from the infrastructure perspective. Additionally, student athletes get a preferential registration as well as additional tutoring so the school limits the roster size.Correct me if i'm wrong but there are unlimited roster spots but only 14 scholarships. Some schools roster 25-28 while some roster 30 plus.
Hey, after this new Smollett hoax twist, all bets are off.They will only sing if they are otherwise looking at prison time. Otherwise, they will negotiate a hefty fine and community service and promise to "never, never do it again". That's why they really F'd themselves if they concealed the bribe as a charitable donation and then took a deduction. The tax fraud is the WOW! factor that makes things much harder on them. (I write that w/o any sympathy; I can't stand how people who cheat on their taxes think they are only cheating the gov't - they are cheating all of us). They'd have been much "better" off just paying it to Singer directly (or to his for-profit arm)
Now your being too funny!!Hey, after this new Smollett hoax twist, all bets are off.