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Welcome to my Saturday #linkdump, the third in an occasional series that may or may not be restricted to Saturdays, but which will ever be an ode to olde-timey #linkblogging of the sort practiced by our blogfathers, blogmothers, and other blogparents:
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Any fule kno that Saturday is #Caturday, and today's woke felinism comes from @GoingMedieval, earthiest of all the Medivelist Bloggers, author of the superb *Once and Future Sex*, all about dirty dirty medieval people and their filthy filthy habits:
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OK - now 1st Circuit appeal in #VarsityBlues college admissions scandal case of Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson- Inner City Press has covered the case matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/in-varsity-b… and will live tweet, thread below
Counsel: There were no referrals to Isackson, Lori Laughlin, or Abdelaziz... But when you invoke criminal conspiracy law, everything gets swept in.
Q: But couldn't you client be charged with the smaller conspiracy, as to his own children?
A: But there's good faith
Q: But couldn't you client be charged with the smaller conspiracy, as to his own children?
A: But there's good faith
Counsel: My client was in Asia on a 12 hour time difference, we're talking about a 30 second conversation. Schools are involved in side doors, back doors - you can get away with one weak manager, but not two. They put Isackson on the stand for more than a day...
OK - it's US v. #GhislaineMaxwell Day 10, jury finally seated, jurors being directed to binder of sealed non-public exhibits. Inner City Press is reporting innercitypress.com/sdnytrial39max… and will live tweet, thread below
Assistant US Attorney Rohrbach: The government calls William Brown of the NYS Dept of Motor Vehicles.
AUSA: Are you aware how people receive ID cards?
Brown: Yes.
AUSA: Please pick up the folder next to you, [sealed] government exhibit.
AUSA: Are you aware how people receive ID cards?
Brown: Yes.
AUSA: Please pick up the folder next to you, [sealed] government exhibit.
Judge Nathan: I will admit these exhibits under seal.
AUSA: Look at Defense Exhibit LD3A, it's in the front of the binder. How old in 1996 was this person, born in 1985?
Brown: 11 years old.
No cross.. Next witness.
AUSA: The government calls Annie Farmer.
AUSA: Look at Defense Exhibit LD3A, it's in the front of the binder. How old in 1996 was this person, born in 1985?
Brown: 11 years old.
No cross.. Next witness.
AUSA: The government calls Annie Farmer.
Harvard is a very, very selective school. Only 3.43% of applicants get in. But that's not the whole story. Writing in @TheGuardian, Tayo Bero says that 43% of the white student body was admitted on criteria other than merit.
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Those 43% are ALDCs: athletes, legacies, dean's interest list (children of major donors) or children (of Harvard faculty). Three quarters of ALDCs do not have the grades to be admitted to Harvard on their own merit. 3/
In #SDNY, the 16 jurors (incl 4 alternates) have been picked for Tekashi #6ix9ine trial. Opening arguments next -thread
OK - Judge Engelmayer is telling the just-picked jury what evidence is and isn't. He has already made a number of rulings, on admissibility of "Billy" video, for example. @SDNYLIVE & Inner City Press story: innercitypress.com/sdny7tekashi6i…
@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @revolttv @HotNewHipHop @TMZFanGroup @Power106LA @FOX5Atlanta @TMZLive @RapCompanyCo It's on: Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Rebold says Nine Trey is guilty of armed robberies, assaults; points out Anthony Ellison (a/k/a Hard, 2d in command) and Aljermiah Mack. Says in coming days you'll learn a lot about slang and internal conflicts.
Thread: How three organizations can come together with America's colleges to respond to #VarsityBlues to do the right thing, even at their peril.
I'm looking at you, @ACT @CollegeBoaard and @NSClearinghouse
I'm looking at you, @ACT @CollegeBoaard and @NSClearinghouse
My presumptions: 1) Since Singer was a cooperating witness, he's turned over his client database and/or records of his foundation to see who made "contributions" since its inception.
Presumption 2) Since we know the two testing centers compromised, it would not be horribly difficult to find students who tested there with extended or unlimited time, and who traveled some distance to test, and who scored at or above the 80th percentile, for instance.
