Bribes at American universities: a businessman having invested in Argentina

The investigation into the corruption scandal of actresses and entrepreneurs in the United States who paid their children to enter the country's best universities is progressing steadily. And the latest developments concern Argentina, since a businessman who invests in our country has been arrested for bribing the admission of their two children.

This is David Sidoo (59), CEO of Lithium Advantage Corp, who is working on a lithium extraction project in Jujuy. The businessman was arrested on March 8, accused of having paid $ 200,000 to the brain of the scam, William "Rick" Singer, for the benefit of their children.

At the time, Mauricio Macri had promoted the extraction of lithium in Jujuy and the governor of that province, Gerardo Morales even attended a meeting with Sidoo in October 2018.

In fact the president has planned to go Thursday to Jujuy to participate in the next summit of the lithium table, in which officials and businessmen participate in the exploitation of this mineral.

The charge against Sidoo is that between 2011 and February 2019, he paid thousands of dollars to The people you trust will travel from Canada to the United States to take the admission exams on behalf of your children.

The fraudulent results of the tests were sent to Yale, Georgetown, Chapman and the University of California at Berkeley, where they accepted their youngest son.

L & # 39; other operating mode It was a matter of directly corrupting the authorities of the institutions and the coaches so that the boys will enter the home of studies regardless of their academic or sports skills.

In addition, the authorities indicated that the parents of some of the richest and most privileged students who were looking to buy spaces for their children not only deceived the system, but also potentially the other students who worked hard for the opportunity of a university education.

William Rick Singer, founder of a prep company called Edge College & Career Network, also known as Key, He pleaded guilty and cooperated with the prosecutors in charge of the case. He admitted to using the key and its non-profit subsidiary, the Key World Foundation – based in Newport Beach, California -, help students cheat on their standardized tests and pay bribes to coaches who could bring them into the university with fake sporting feats.

It was the largest admission survey in schools in the history of the Department of Justice, an investigation that involved two hundred agents across the United States and resulted in the laying of charges against fifty people in six states.