美国史上规模最大的名校招生舞弊案自曝出以来持续引发各界震动。
据调查，花重金“走后门”让子女成功进入世界顶级名校就读的涉案人员中不乏知名好莱坞影星及商界名流。随着对该案的调查不断深入，更多案件详情浮出水面，还牵涉出两个来自中国的家庭……
1日，《洛杉矶时报》（Los Angeles Times）等美媒援引知情人士称，目前该起名校招生舞弊案中最大的一笔“贿款”来自一位名为“Yusi Zhao”（英文名为Molly）的中国学生家庭。其父母通过摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）公司财务顾问Michael Wu引荐，结识了本案核心人物、即升学顾问William Rick Singer，并向其支付了共计650万美元（约合人民币4300万元）的费用，使Yusi Zhao于2017年春季成功被斯坦福大学录取。
据Singer本人供述，其收费通常依据“服务类型”有所不同：找“枪手”为子女在高校入学考试中代考或修改答案，家长需向其支付1.5万至5万美元不等费用，而若想确保子女以运动员特长生身份获得名校录取资格，则价格更高，一般在25万美元左右。
参照这一“收费标准”，Yusi父母疑为女儿进入斯坦福砸下的650万美元“巨资”实在令人咋舌。
据《洛杉矶时报》报道，为确保Yusi Zhao能够进入斯坦福大学就读，Singer为其伪造了帆船特长生资质，尽管Yusi并无相关运动经历。
The family of a Chinese student named Yusi Zhao, also known by her English name Molly, was alleged to have paid 6.5 million U.S. dollars to William Rick Singer, the mastermind of the high-profile U.S. college admission scandal, to secure her a spot at the prestigious Stanford University with a fabricated sailing profile, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
同日，斯坦福大学校报《斯坦福日报》（The Stanford Daily）发文称，学校在发现Yusi的入学申请中包含伪造帆船运动员资质后已对其做出开除处理。Yusi也已在3月底搬离学校宿舍。同时，《斯坦福日报》还在报道中披露了Yusi父亲身份——山东步长制药集团董事长及联合创始人赵涛。
Yusi was allegedly expelled from the university and moved out of her campus residence in March after the school discovered her application contained “falsified sailing credentials,” according to the Stanford Daily, which also revealed identity of the Chinese sophomore’s father as Zhao Tao, chairman and co-founder of the Heze-based Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals.
Yusi母亲声明：被坑了！我们是受害者！
被曝入学作弊后，Yusi母亲于5月2日委托律师发表声明，称650万美元的费用实际上系女儿被录取后，她在Singer建议下通过其个人基金会向斯坦福大学捐赠的款项，用以资助科研人员、奖学金、学校运动项目及无力承担斯坦福学费的学生。
（图源：北京青年报）
声明中称，因不熟悉美国大学的录取程序，Yusi母亲通过第三方介绍找到了Singer的顾问公司，以协助Yusi进行申请。然而Singer的顾问公司当时并未保证女儿能够进入美国某一所大学。
声明还表示，Yusi本身学习成绩优异，课外活动经历突出（has a track record of good academic performance and extra-curricular achievements），通过正常申请渠道也已获得美国几所大学的录取（据某直播平台介绍，Yusi曾在美国高考ACT和托福考试中，分别取得33分[满分36]和111分[满分120]的成绩）。
Singer及其基金会舞弊的报道传开后，Yusi母亲才意识到自己被误导和利用，而女儿更成为了本起诈骗事件的受害者。Yusi母亲目前已聘请律师处理此事。
Yusi’s mother on Thursday released a statement through her attorney, claiming that the family was duped into believing that the money was a donation to help the university with the salaries of its academic staff and fund athletics programs as well as needy students.
“Mrs. Zhao has come to realize that she had been misled” by taking advantage of her generosity, read the statement.
Yusi父亲：女儿在美留学资金来源与公司无关
3日，步长制药董事长赵涛通过公司官网发布声明，表示女儿在美国留学事宜属个人及家庭行为，资金来源与步长制药无关，对步长制药的财务状况和正常运营更不会产生影响。
（图源：步长制药官网）
现年53岁的赵涛目前为A股上市公司山东步长制药股份有限公司实际控制人。据介绍，步长制药主要从事中成药的研发、生产和销售，主要产品涉及心脑血管疾病中成药领域。
公开资料显示，现国籍为新加坡的赵涛身家显赫，多年前就已跻身亿万富豪行列。在2017年《福布斯中国富豪榜》中，赵涛以247.6亿元财富位列第68位；2018年10月，赵涛家族凭借320亿元财富位居《胡润百富榜》第82名。
Yusi’s father and the chairman of the Shanghai-listed Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals, Zhao Tao, said through a statement issued on the company’s official website on Friday that his daughter’s studies in the U.S. has nothing to do with the company’s business and will cast no impact on its operations.
被疑入学舞弊中国家庭无独有偶
除Yusi Zhao外，另一位名为Sherry Guo的中国学生也被曝疑似以舞弊手段获取耶鲁大学入学资格。
据《斯坦福日报》报道，Sherry Guo家庭疑通过向Singer支付巨额资金，使Sherry于2018年以足球特长生身份被耶鲁大学录取。资金数额总计120万美元（约合人民币800万元），仅次于Yusi Zhao家庭支付的650万美元。Sherry已于今年三月被耶鲁大学开除。
对此，Guo家早前回应与Zhao家如出一辙。Guo家律师曾对《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）表示，Sherry的父母以为120万美元是“合法捐赠”（legal donation），该家庭完全是由于不了解美国大学申请流程而被中间人“坑了”。
目前，美国检方尚未对Yusi Zhao及Sherry Guo家庭提起诉讼。两户中国家庭对Singer的舞弊操作是否知情仍有待调查。
This is not the only Chinese family reported to have paid Singer to secure a spot in a top-notch college. The family of Sherry Guo, who was admitted to the Yale University in 2018 as a purported soccer recruit, had also allegedly paid the scam ringleader around 1.2 million U.S. dollars, the second-largest known payment to secure the enrollment, according to the Stanford Daily.
The payment, however, was believed to be a “legal donation,” the New York Times reported citing Guo’s attorney, who also suggested Singer “was preying on the Chinese community” by exploiting the parents’ lack of knowledge of the U.S. university admission process. Sherry was expelled from the Yale University in March.
Both families have not been charged so far, and it is not yet clear whether they were aware of Singer’s conspiracy.
名校招生舞弊案震惊全美：50人被起诉，13名家长同意认罪
今年三月，美国曝出名校入学舞弊丑闻，涉及学校包括耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学、南加州大学等多所世界一流名校，涉案家长包括演艺明星、企业高管等各界精英人士，案件规模之大、牵涉范围之广震惊全美（戳链接回顾前请→成绩不够金钱凑，“买买买”大军攻陷名校：美国高校最大规模舞弊案曝光）。据悉，目前已有包含33位家长在内的50名涉案人员被起诉。
据美国检方介绍，本案主谋为William Rick Singer。2011年至2019年间，Singer利用其成立的非盈利组织Key Worldwide Foundation（KWF）掩人耳目，共收受学生家长总计超过2500万美元（约合人民币1.6亿元），并分别通过找“枪手”代考、伪造ACT或SAT成绩、贿赂高校体育教练以取得体育特长生资质等形式帮助客户子女顺利进入美国知名高校。
据悉，Singer对于诈骗等四项罪名供认不讳。包括斯坦福大学前帆船队教练John Vandemoer在内，曾与Singer合作帮助其客户子女伪造体育特长生身份的部分涉案学校教职员工也已同意认罪，并被学校解除职务。截至当地时间4月8日，包括好莱坞知名女演员Felicity Huffman在内的13名家长同意认罪。5月1日，来自加州的房地产开发商Bruce Isackson夫妇正式向法庭认罪，承认通过行贿和考试作弊等违法手段，帮助他们的子女进入南加大等名校。二人也成为此次美国高校招生舞弊案中第一对认罪的学生家长。
Singer, 58, has pleaded guilty to committing an array of crimes including racketeering and orchestrating a bribery and facing up to 65 years in jail.
Bruce Isackson, former president of a California-based real estate firm, and his wife have become the first parents to plead guilty to the admission scandal, admitting to getting their children into the most selective universities including the University of South California by falsely labeling them as athletes. They are among the 13 parents who had agreed to plead guilty last month.
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