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RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 01-21-2021

(01-21-2021, 11:36 AM)PalmTree Wrote:  

(01-21-2021, 09:26 AM)82lsju Wrote:  Varsity Blues defendant Robert Zangrillo gets a presidential pardon

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-21/fingerpointing-outrage-after-trump-pardons-usc-father-in-college-admission-scandal

Here's a non-paywall link to the same story:   https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fingerpointing-outrage-after-Trump-pardons-USC-15887289.php

odd, I'm not an LA Times subscriber and I can click through to the article...

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RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - TreeWeird - 01-21-2021

A sample from the LA Times story (also published in SFGate):

"In 2017, Zangrillo hired associates of Newport Beach consultant Rick Singer to secretly complete his daughter's high school classes. Later, Zangrillo paid others to complete his daughter's community college classes. And to get his daughter accepted to USC as a transfer student, prosecutors alleged, he opted for Singer's notorious "side door," paying $250,000 as part of a scheme to falsely cast his daughter as a crew recruit."

According to the article:

- Zangrillo was the only Varsity Blues defendant to be accused of paying to have his kids classwork done.  

- The Trump White House claimed the supporters of the pardon included a USC trustee who is a "a longtime friend of Trump who also chaired his inauguration committee" although that that trustee denies it.

- Zangrillo's attorneys had obtained a court order requiring USC to divulge what might be a great deal of embarrassing information about other prominent donors and alumni.  

- The pardon means that Zangrillo will not be tried, and presumably USC will not need to provide the ordered information.


Hmmmmmmm.

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RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - Griffins78 - 01-21-2021

Robert Zangrillo is a Stanford GSB MBA

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RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - M T - 01-22-2021

(01-21-2021, 04:05 PM)TreeWeird Wrote:  - Zangrillo's attorneys had obtained a court order requiring USC to divulge what might be a great deal of embarrassing information about other prominent donors and alumni.  

- The pardon means that Zangrillo will not be tried, and presumably USC will not need to provide the ordered information.

Perhaps USC Trustee Barrack didn't intervene on behalf of Zangrillo.  He may have argued for the benefit to USC not to air their laundry.

Is there no one at USC in trouble over this, whose trial could benefit from it?

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