Trump Treasury staffer leaves after getting embroiled in college admissions scandal

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

James Littlefair, an advance staffer who worked for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, has resigned from the department after his mother pleaded guilty to illegally helping him graduate from Georgetown University as part of the nationwide “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Littlefair resigned earlier this month; his mother, Karen Littlefair, of Newport Beach, Calif., was charged on Monday with one charge of wire fraud conspiracy. She agreed to plead guilty in an agreement signed on Nov. 11.

Prosecutors from the Department of Justice said that she paid college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer $9,000 so that an employee of his would take four online classes for her son at Georgetown and Arizona State University in 2017 through April 2018.

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Before joining the administration, in the summer of 2014, Littlefair was an intern in the office of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/treasury-staffer-college-admissions-scandal-082461

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. I'm sort of surprised he will slink away willingly.

Most republicans, when caught in a scandal, dig their heels in and have to be dragged out.

[MontanaMama]

2. But of course...

Is there no one in this crowd that isn't an outright criminal?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Oh, a Sheepskin Mommy!

nice that junior is in the educational network

[EndlessWire]

4. I'm probably in the minority

but I just can't see putting someone in jail for forty years for this stuff. We can't even prosecute some of the worst political crimes we ever heard of, and putting mommy in jail for cheating for junior just doesn't seem a high priority. Give them thousands of hours of community service and send them on their way.

[NotHardly]

5. She's a nobody, not a hollywood star, they'll probably give her the max...

like if you or I did it, and yeah, I think that a week or two in jail and a thousand hours of community service should be to max of it. But, laws are for little people like her, like you and I, the big money usually walks easy.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. I had no idea college admission consultants can take tests for you or your offspring

I knew several officers in the Navy who had college admission consultants help them get into big name colleges. Silly me, I took my own tests.

[Brainfodder]

7. ...and about the rest of them?

[riversedge]

8. bye bye