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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell now, look how Jared got into Harvard:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6802515/Scandal-renews-attention-Jared-Kushners-admission-Harvard-father-donated-2-5million.htmlInitech
(100,081 posts)dlk
(11,569 posts)They made the "donation" so their son would be admitted. This is nothing new. The rich buy loopholes in everything. Someone should take a good look at the Medicaid waivers program, where any income, even in the millions, gets waived in order to receive Medicaid services.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Same happened in a mid sized College Town in Wisconsin were a Family gave a couple million to the College for their name on a Campus School. There by allowing their Grand Children a free Education with out going through the Admittance process.
Again ask the Janitor.
Do you mean Medicare?
dlk
(11,569 posts)This is for grants and services for children and adults under the age of 65.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'll never know why these Hollywood folks put on such a charade instead of just making a big donation which is perfectly legal and nobody asks questions...
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customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)for the ultra-rich to donate very large sums of money to get not only their name on a building, but for babysitting their spoiled brats through another 4-6 years of extended adolescence. Often, the building is for the long term benefit of tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of students.
This was done secretly, to benefit corrupt non-revenue sports coaches who envied the big bucks that the football and basketball coaches make for their sports. And Singer (what a name for this canary) is bucking for a Manafort type sentence, after which he can escape the country and live off the bucks he's salted away.