The payments the foundation made to Loyola High School have already been determined to be tuition payments for the USC Water Polo coach’s sons. Not only was he putting money in the team account but also a “side door” payment to the coach.
This article deals mostly with the tax fraud angle.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2019/03/12/tax-fraud-a-key-role-in-major-college-admissions-scandal-which-snared-hollywood-actors-ceos–more/
There’s a link to the IRS filing of the 2016 Form 990 for Rick Singer’s nonprofit KWF (Key Worldwide Foundation) in the article here - https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/461603030_201612_990_2018010815095446.pdf. Scroll down and take a look at the Schedule I (on page 29 of the 39 page PDF) to see the list of “grants and other assistance to domestic organizations” in 2016. They include Chapman University, De Paul University, Loyola High School, NYU Athletics, University of Miami, University of Texas Athletics, USC Soccer and USC Womens Athletics. This is the first mention I’ve seen that Singer may have been bribing high schools, too, although it doesn’t surprise me.
It’s also interesting to see how much the contributions to his “charity” increased between 2013 and 2016 (page 17 on the PDF). They went from $451,600 to $3,736,160 in just 4 years. Business was really picking up!
Edit: Looks like this was already posted while I was posting mine. This thread moves fast!
The 0.01% complaining about the 0.001%.
Precious
Somebody is paying money to get their kid in to DePaul/Chapman/Baruch?
I take that back. I guess people would want to bribe their way in to Oberlin as well.
that list is crazy, 4kid4us! I’m slightly annoyed at admissions for letting this all get through them. so much was made up!
Isn’t there a “think sideways” article about getting into top colleges? Now there’s the side-door option too I guess!
@leigh22, to be fair, Felicity’s friend has a point.
One is legal bribery and the other one isn’t, but you’ll have a hard time convincing me that one form is bribery and the other form isn’t.
Agh… I love David Mamet and William Macy strong Chicago connections… Agh…
Considering how obsessed these people were with getting their kid into an “elite” college, makes you wonder if they weren’t also posting on CC from time to time.
So much effort. So much attention to detail. If only these had been used for good rather than ill.
I’m pretty certain @PurpleTitan meant that Yale should look like Caltech as a meritocracy, not as another institute of technology. Why shouldn’t benchmarks and admission standards for humanity students also be based purely on merits?
I am just not smart enough to think about transposing my kids head onto a body of an athlete…
From the foundation tax forms, it looks like there might be another shoe to drop regarding NYU.
Makes sense. NYU is kind of like the USC of NYC. Reputation and admissions have improved dramatically and quite popular with wealthy folks in the NY Metro area. Favorite university of the Gossip Girls after all!
And NYU plays sports in the relative obscurity of D3. You could see a coach there being tempted given the high cost of living in NY. Stay tuned.
@Knowsstuff But you’re smart enough to hire someone to do it for you. :))
Most of the brands she’s connected with have stayed mum so far but at least one has removed all content that features her.
Also this little tidbit:
“Later in the interview, Giannulli referred to her parents as “hypocrites,” adding that her father “faked his way” through college: “He, like, built his whole entire brand and he wasn’t actually, like — I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this — ever enrolled in college. But he, like, faked his way through it and then he started his whole business with tuition money that his parents thought was going to college.””
I wonder if any of the kids who got their degrees with fake inflated scores and bribes might today be getting (or have gotten) qualifications as doctors, etc, by similar crooked methods and might therefore be endangering people’s lives…
The more I read and hear about this, the angrier I become. I think about the poor woman in Akron who used a relatives address to get her kid into a better school, she received jail time. These folk had better serve time for these shenanigans. The tax fraud alone is enough to warrant a sentence.
“CW-1 allegedly instructed clients to purport their children had learning disabilities to obtain medical documentation that the College Board and ACT, Inc. typically require for granting time extensions. In one instance, CW-1 told defendant Gordon Caplan to instruct his daughter “to be stupid” when the psychologist evaluated her, the documents allege.”
This is despicable.
I think the David Mamet letter was forged. There isn’t nearly enough obscenity in it.
https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways/
Sideways, side door. Same difference, right? Obviously this is all MITChris’s fault!
/s
(meta question to the mods, how do I stop getting notifications of answers to this post? I mean, I’m flattered that this little news item took off, but it’s getting a bit, um, excessive)