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On the one hand, this sort of deserves a separate thread.  On the other hand, it's pretty off topic from Stanford sports and it does relate to getting into school through illegal means.  So I'll bunch it here with the trial of a couple of the U$C varsity blues defendants.  



Mark Ridley-Thomas and an ex-dean at U$C were just indicted for a scheme where Ridley-Thomas bribed U$C with campaign funds to give his son a scholarship and then a professorship in U$C's school of social work.  Stay classy, U$C.



https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ridley-...n-charges/



Edit:  I suppose I also could have put it under one of the threads about sexual harassment/assault by U$C employees since the scandal came to light after an internal investigation in which Ridley-Thomas' son was forced to resign admist numerous allegations of sexual harassment.  Once again, stay classy, U$C.

I read that report a bit differently than you summarized.    I also want to point out that USC did start the investigation that wound up with these charges.

Mark Ridley-Thomas is a LA City Councilman who has represented parts of LA for 3 decades. (He declined to run for mayor 6 weeks ago.) His son Sebastian was an Assemblyman before joining USC.
  (as the phrasing of allegations is important, I am going to quote the KTLA report)

Ridley-Thomas and Marilyn Louise Flynn, a former tenured professor and the dean of the USC School of Social Work, were named in a 20-count indictment that alleged the politician, then serving on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, traded “supporting county contracts and lucrative contract amendments with the university” in exchange for benefits for a relative in 2017 and 2018.

Sebastian Ridley-Thomas received benefits from USC such as “graduate school admission, a full-tuition scholarship, a paid professorship, and a mechanism to funnel” campaign funds to Mark Ridley-Thomas using a nonprofit operated by Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, the indictment said.

(From  what I read at LATimes, the "funnel" statement seems backwards.  The allegation seems to be that campaign funds of the father were funneled through the school to the nonprofit.)

As for Sebastian's hiring and firing at USC, here's a few more details. and more at LATimes.  From what I read there, the allegations of harassment were not at USC and dated before his hiring.  It is appropriate here to point out that USC launched an internal investigation into Sebastian's hiring, then fired him and referred the matter to the US Attorney's office.

I don't see any indication that the son was part of the indictment.

Rather than making a remark about an indictment of a politician, I'll remind myself that people are innocent until proven guilty.

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On the one hand, this sort of deserves a separate thread.  On the other hand, it's pretty off topic from Stanford sports and it does relate to getting into school through illegal means.  So I'll bunch it here with the trial of a couple of the U$C varsity blues defendants.  



Mark Ridley-Thomas and an ex-dean at U$C were just indicted for a scheme where Ridley-Thomas bribed U$C with campaign funds to give his son a scholarship and then a professorship in U$C's school of social work.  Stay classy, U$C.



https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ridley-...n-charges/



Edit:  I suppose I also could have put it under one of the threads about sexual harassment/assault by U$C employees since the scandal came to light after an internal investigation in which Ridley-Thomas' son was forced to resign admist numerous allegations of sexual harassment.  Once again, stay classy, U$C.

I read that report a bit differently than you summarized.    I also want to point out that USC did start the investigation that wound up with these charges.

Mark Ridley-Thomas is a LA City Councilman who has represented parts of LA for 3 decades. (He declined to run for mayor 6 weeks ago.) His son Sebastian was an Assemblyman before joining USC.
  (as the phrasing of allegations is important, I am going to quote the KTLA report)

Ridley-Thomas and Marilyn Louise Flynn, a former tenured professor and the dean of the USC School of Social Work, were named in a 20-count indictment that alleged the politician, then serving on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, traded “supporting county contracts and lucrative contract amendments with the university” in exchange for benefits for a relative in 2017 and 2018.

Sebastian Ridley-Thomas received benefits from USC such as “graduate school admission, a full-tuition scholarship, a paid professorship, and a mechanism to funnel” campaign funds to Mark Ridley-Thomas using a nonprofit operated by Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, the indictment said.

(From  what I read at LATimes, the "funnel" statement seems backwards.  The allegation seems to be that campaign funds of the father were funneled through the school to the nonprofit.)

As for Sebastian's hiring and firing at USC, here's a few more details. and more at LATimes.  From what I read there, the allegations of harassment were not at USC and dated before his hiring.  It is appropriate here to point out that USC launched an internal investigation into Sebastian's hiring, then fired him and referred the matter to the US Attorney's office.

I don't see any indication that the son was part of the indictment.

Rather than making a remark about an indictment of a politician, I'll remind myself that people are innocent until proven guilty.