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Why? One of the US attorneys wasting our federal tax dollars prosecuting the parents even pointed it out: they bribed the college the wrong way, by not buying
by x0x0 8y ago
Why?
One of the US attorneys wasting our federal tax dollars prosecuting the parents even pointed it out: they bribed the college the wrong way, by not buying them a building like they were supposed to. "We're not talking about donating a building...we're talking about fraud."
So the injured parties here are the universities, and their complaint is they got cut out on the bribe dollars. Which is fine and all, but I don't understand at all why that's our problem. That's the universities' problems, and they should feel free to sue their employees for not sharing bribes appropriately.
Health care fraud actually hurts people and steals from the federal government, so there's two good reasons to spend our resources prosecuting it.
- philips 8y agoI believe the problem was the personal donation for the fraud was structured as a tax deductible non-profit donation.
- danso 8y agoUniversities get substantial federal funding, including Pell and research grants. Such investments are put at risk if the universities fill themselves with unqualified applicants.
- musicale 8y agoHas any university ever lost federal funding because of admitting too many unqualified applicants? I doubt this is a major risk.
- danso 8y agoWhere is the claim that a university has ever been found to have admitted “too many unqualified applicants”?
- x0x0 8y agoAnd what makes the unqualified applications requiring building purchases for admission ok, and the unqualified applicants requiring cash payments to coaches not ok under your rubric?
- danso 8y agoShould be patently obvious that there’s a cap on how many people can donate the kind of money that funds a building — nevermind that such donations are public. There is no cap for a secretive system of bribery and arbitrage.
- randycupertino 8y agoBecause donating money directly to the school benefits other students who use the dorms, the building, the research facilities. Straight up bribing the coaches just enriches the coaches.
- esoterica 8y agoI don’t think you know what the word bribe means. Payment in exchange for a product or service (e.g. admission to a college) is not a bribe. When I go to the store and buy a soda I am not bribing the store. A bribe is when you pay an agent of an organization to misappropriate the resources of or otherwise defraud their employer. Like paying a cop to not arrest you, or paying a college coach to pretend you’re a recruited athlete.
- rhizome 8y agoSo the injured parties here are the universities And the legitimate applicants who were rejected.