Attorneys for a parent charged with conspiring to buy his son an illegal leg up in the college admissions process have accused prosecutors of holding back evidence they say could help exonerate him.
Attorneys for William McGlashan Jr., the San Francisco Bay Area financier charged with conspiring to buy his son an illegal leg up in the college admissions process, have accused prosecutors of holding back evidence they say could help exonerate him.
The move on behalf of McGlashan, a former top executive at TPG Capital who co-founded a socially and environmentally conscious “impact investment” fund with rock star Bono, followed similar motions from other parents charged with resorting to fraud, bribery and money laundering to get their children into elite universities. Their lawyers, like McGlashan’s, argue the government is withholding evidence that runs counter to its case.
But McGlashan’s lawyers, led by former Enron prosecutor John C. Hueston, said in their filing Wednesday that after several months of wrangling over what documents had to be turned over, prosecutors provided a one-line summary of Singer’s interviews with investigators that they say undermines the prosecution’s timeline and demonstrates McGlashan’s innocence.
It is not clear, however, when McGlashan actually turned down Singer’s offer to sneak his son in through his side door. In an updated indictment filed in October, prosecutors referred to a text message McGlashan sent to Singer on Sept. 29 that indicates he was still pursuing the idea. In it, he inquired, “So when will we know definitively on USC?”
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