A US broker would have made the girl pass as a sailing champion. The university's sailing coach would have received 770,000 dollars. The good offices of Morgan Stanley.
Beijing (AsiaNews) - A Chinese family would have paid 6.5 million dollars to intermediaries to have their daughter admitted to Stanford University (Palo Alto, California). The sum is the bribe that has ever been paid by relatives to William "Rick" Singer (photo 2), owner of the Edge College & Career Network, who worked to place young people in the best universities in the States.
His plots were revealed after justice brought out a series of cases involving high-ranking families, celebrities and the financial world in March.
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, the girl was admitted because Singer presented her as a magnificent athlete, a sailing specialist, although the young woman never practiced this sport. The name of the family is not known, although the Los Angeles Times speaks of a girl named Yusi "Molly" Zhao (see photo 1). Her family, based in Beijing, contacted Singer through counselors from Morgan Stanley's financial service.
Former Stanford sailing coach, John Vandemoer, confessed and admitted he had worked with Singer for student admission. In return, a Singer charitable foundation paid $ 770,000 to the sailing sports program.