Massive Cheating Scandal to Get Children Admitted to Elite Colleges

Mastermind Wm Rick Singer, who set the whole thing up to line his own pocket and who targeted parents, still a free man.

Won't do a day.

Criminal Kushner promised Harvard millions for a building to get Jared into that school.

Apparently not a crime

he did it the "right way": a legal donation.

A prosecutor told a federal court jury Monday that a wealthy Maryland businessman made payments totaling $1.5 million to Harvard University fencing coach Peter Brand, and even bought his house for nearly twice its value, as part of a scheme to get his two sons admitted to the school as fencing recruits.

The payments from Jie “Jack” Zhao to Brand from 2012 to 2017 were “bribery,” Assistant US Attorney Ian Stearns told jurors during opening statements in federal court in Boston in the trial of the two men. “It’s also fraud. Those crimes are what this case is all about.”

But defense lawyers told jurors that Zhao’s sons were outstanding athletes and students who were admitted to Harvard on their own merit. They described Zhao and Brand as close friends and said the payments were loans, which Brand repaid last year in full, with interest.

“This was a friend loaning a friend money,” Brand’s attorney, Douglas Brooks, said in his opening remarks. He told jurors that even if they believed Zhao should not have been giving money to Brand at the same time that the coach was recruiting his sons, it was not a crime.

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‘This was a friend loaning a friend money,’ defense tells jurors at bribery trial of former Harvard fencing coach - The Boston Globe

Peter Brand, of Cambridge, and Jie "Jack" Zhao, a telecommunications executive, each face charges related to alleged bribery in Harvard recruiting decisions.

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