Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband allegedly implicated

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Richard Blum at UC-Berkeley, 2009
Image: Wikipedia.org

Richard Blum (pictured above) is a successful investment banker. He is also the husband to Dianne Feinstein, an influential long-time Democratic member of the US Senate. Mr Blum is now alleged to have written some inappropriate letters of recommendation that have helped some unqualified candidates get into the University of California system.

So it appears that the whole college admission system may, even if tangentially, reach not only into the realm of rich and powerful in the entertainment industry but also into the halls of power in Washington. Not necessarily surprising, but telling to a degree. Good news is, education bubble may be upon us and hence there may be so little value left in college education that those getting it out of turn are not even gaining this much advantage.

The whole admission bribery/corruption scandal is a topic unto itself that I will hopefully get to cover in more detail. For now let me leave you with one detail: not once was it discovered through wrongfully admitted applicants being woefully unqualified. Not once, to my knowledge, have these children of privilege admitted to college by way of fraud flunked out miserably. So if attending - and maintaining one's position at - some of the nation's premier places of learning is so effortless, of what value if the education said places of learning have to offer?

Sources

Feinstein's husband admits to pulling strings in UC admissions (archived)
KTVU staff/Associated Press, 24 September 2020

Richard Blum (Wiki, archived)

2019 college admissions bribery scandal (Wiki, archived)

The Higher Education Bubble Is Bursting — And That's A Good Thing
Investor's Daily News, 7 September 2018

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