3/25/2019 BILL GALLAGHER & SKAKEL MCCOOEY In a Sunday interview with the News, Conroy said that Yale has started an internal review with the assistance of outside counsel. He added that Yale has no reason to believe that other students were involved in the scheme besides the one who had her admission rescinded and another who was never accepted. On March 14, The Wall Street Journal reported that Morrie Tobin, a father of Yale students, allegedly tipped off federal authorities to the scandal when he provided information in an attempt to gain leniency for an unrelated securities fraud case. According to the Journal, former Yale women’s soccer head coach Rudy Meredith offered Tobin a bribe, which he declined. The Journal later reported on March 19 that, according to a person familiar with the investigation, Tobin participated in the scam by paying a bribe. However, Conroy said that Yale does not know the Journal’s source and cannot comment on the accusation’s accuracy. At the time of this story’s publication, the News has not been able to identify the source or confirm the allegation published in the Journal. Offering serious and challenging mathematics to intellectually gifted students Meredith, who resigned in November 2018, is charged with two counts of wire fraud and is scheduled to appear in court on March 28. Documents revealed that Meredith had been working as a cooperating witness for the FBI for at least five months — between April and November 2018 — during soccer season and a recruiting cycle. In one example of bribery cited in court documents, Singer agreed to help “facilitate the admission of an applicant to Yale,” known in the case as “Yale Applicant 1,” “in or about” November 2017 in exchange for a $1.2 million payment from the applicant’s parents in the “spring or summer of 2018.” Yale Applicant 1 was admitted to the University as a women’s soccer recruit despite having never played competitive soccer and has since had her admission rescinded. Singer allegedly worked with Laura Janke, a former assistant women’s soccer coach at the University of Southern California, to create a falsified profile to be included in that applicant’s application. “[C]ould you please create a soccer profiles asap for this girl who will be a midfielder and attending Yale so she has to be very good. Needs to play Academy and no high school soccer…awards and honors — more info to come — need a soccer pic probably Asian girl,” read a Nov. 10, 2017, email from Singer to Janke, according to court documents. Let all ginseng lovers get the real ginseng from Wisconsin When the applicant was admitted to Yale, Singer mailed Meredith a check for $400,000. In an email to the Yale community the day the scandal was made public, Yale President Peter Salovey wrote that the University does not “believe that any member of the Yale administration or staff other than [Meredith] knew about the conspiracy.” The Admissions Office deferred comments to Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications, which released a statement saying that the admissions office was “the victim of a crime perpetrated by its women’s soccer coach, who is no longer at the university.” Principal, Licensed in MD, VA, DC, PA , DE, NC, SC, FL WeChat ID: sunnychenyuqing NMLS # 1220187 “The Office of Undergraduate Admissions relies on varsity coaches to provide honest and expert evaluations of individual applicants’ athletic accomplishments and potential to contribute to a varsity team,” the statement continued. “The Admissions Committee considers these evaluations alongside the other components of an applicant’s file, but only students whose applications demonstrate their ability to succeed in the academic and residential components of the Yale experience are admitted.” In his campuswide email, Salovey also noted that Director of Yale Athletics Vicky Chun has been implementing new policies to better oversee and assess Yale Athletics’ coaching staff to “ensure that student-athletes receive an excellent education at Yale and to enhance the quality of [Yale’s] athletic programs.” Chun will also conduct reviews of every coach’s roster of recruits before these rosters are sent to the admissions office. President, Principal Loan Consultant, Leader Funding, Inc. When announcing the initial charges March 12, Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, said that this scheme was the product of a “culture of corruption and greed.” “You can’t lie and cheat to get ahead because you will get caught,” he said. Other universities implicated in the scandal include Stanford University, Georgetown University and the University of Southern California. | Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning weekly classes (ONLINE) ![]() Quality Tutoring ALL-IN-ONE ONLINE REGISTRATION SOFTWARE Principal, Tel: (301)906-6889; (240)912-6290 Licensed in MD, VA, DC, WV, PA, DE, NC, SC, FL WeChat ID: sunnychenyuqing NMLS # 1220187 President, Principal Loan Consultant, Leader Funding, Inc. 电话: (240) 784-6645 Rockville, MD Phone: 301-366-3497 |
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