Massive Cheating Scandal to Get Children Admitted to Elite Colleges

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    DanM

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    1 year ago 12/03/2022 1:46pm EST
    re: Ivies Suck

    Dec. 01, 2022, 12:04 p.m.|
    Published: Dec. 01, 2022, 11:46 a.m.

    A trial for a former Harvard University fencing coach and Maryland businessman accused of a college admissions bribery scandal totaling $1.5 million to secure entrance to the Cambridge university for the businessman’s two sons is scheduled to start next week.

    Former coach Peter Brand and Jie “Jack” Zhao, of Maryland, face federal bribery and wire charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the trial is scheduled to start Monday at 9 a.m. before Senior Judge George O’Toole, Jr. and includes a lengthy witness list.

    Prosecutors said Brand recruited Zhao’s two sons to the Harvard men’s fencing team in exchange for money, a new car, college tuition payments for Brand’s son, mortgage payments for Brand’s Needham house, paying to renovate the property, and Zhao eventually buying the house, a move that allowed Brand to purchase a more expensive residence in Cambridge.

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    carmine9

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    1 year ago 12/03/2022 1:51pm EST
    re: DanM

    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.

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    carmine9

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    1 year ago 12/03/2022 1:52pm EST
    re: DanM

    DanM wrote:

    Dec. 01, 2022, 12:04 p.m.|
    Published: Dec. 01, 2022, 11:46 a.m.

    A trial for a former Harvard University fencing coach and Maryland businessman accused of a college admissions bribery scandal totaling $1.5 million to secure entrance to the Cambridge university for the businessman’s two sons is scheduled to start next week.

    Former coach Peter Brand and Jie “Jack” Zhao, of Maryland, face federal bribery and wire charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the trial is scheduled to start Monday at 9 a.m. before Senior Judge George O’Toole, Jr. and includes a lengthy witness list.

    Prosecutors said Brand recruited Zhao’s two sons to the Harvard men’s fencing team in exchange for money, a new car, college tuition payments for Brand’s son, mortgage payments for Brand’s Needham house, paying to renovate the property, and Zhao eventually buying the house, a move that allowed Brand to purchase a more expensive residence in Cambridge.

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

    Apparently not a crime

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    Anonymous Poster

    1 year ago 12/03/2022 1:54pm EST
    re: carmine9

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

  • I can't run fast, but old and slow is acceptable.

    DanM

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    1 year ago 12/06/2022 9:40am EST
    re: Ivies Suck

    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.

    bostonglobe.com
    ‘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.
    Link:www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/05/metro/t...

  • I can't run fast, but old and slow is acceptable.

    DanM

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    1 year ago 12/21/2022 6:27pm EST
    re: Ivies Suck

    abcnews.go.com
    Former Harvard coach, dad acquitted in college bribery case
    ABC News
    A former Harvard fencing coach was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he accepted more than $1.5 million in bribes in exchange for designating a wealthy businessman’s two sons as recruits to help secure their admission to th...
    Link:abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/harvard-co...

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