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Roosevelt Taught Recruits to Lie in Order to Take Benefits Meant for Homeless Kids -- and These Federal Charges Apply
Understand what it means to be a homeless high school student...And J425 documents a laundry list of charges administrators and coaches could face for…
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Kevin Thomas Hulten
Source on Roosevelt Scandal: Feds Don’t Like the ‘Teaching Kids to Do Wire Fraud’ Thing
One former U.S. Attorney thinks coaching up kids to lie for fraudulent McKinney Vento Act benefits is “very problematic”. So is the cover up. Here are…
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First, They Were Taught to Lie and Cheat. Then They Were Kenneled
Part two of the Roosevelt Football Scandal series’ look at the on campus “hang out” for football players known as the Kennel
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Plan to “Kennel” Football Recruits During Academic Day Earned One Roosevelt Football Coach $160k in Direct Sole Source Payments
J425 was first to report details of a private on-campus club, offered as a benefit to football recruits. Now, Federal prosecutors may be interested in…
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Roosevelt Football Scandal: Coaches Falsely Labeled Athletes as Homeless to Get Around Transfer Rules
Coaches Adams and Patu built "administrative onboarding process purpose-built to falsely enroll transfer athletes as homeless students in order to…
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Roosevelt Football: Scandal Substantiated by Fact-finder Report
J425 was first to report (in October) on the concerning allegations of transfer wrongdoing at Roosevelt football. Eight months later, we check whether…
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Kevin Thomas Hulten
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