Wednesday’s unused Faruqui strike already ran. This is Thursday’s unused charging paper. An indictment is not a conviction.
Department of Justice / Fox News, Eric Mack, Thursday, Alexandria: at 11:00 a.m. ET in the Justin W. Williams Building, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announced Operation Ghostbusters. Fox: five defendants indicted in a ghost-student federal-aid scheme. More than 40 open cases across 26 FBI field offices. More than $750,000 in cryptocurrency seized, tied to networks in Kenya. Five is not 40. Do not smash five into forty. They are sequential claims, not one number. An indictment is not a verdict. All defendants presumed innocent. Wednesday already filed unused Faruqui striking the overnight Floris complaint. We will not reprint that strike as first-day news. We will not reprint Tuesday’s unused overnight filing. We will not reprint Monday’s unused 48. We will not reprint Sunday’s unused Lucas.
Same unused presser: McDonald: “These are not isolated errors.” “This is organized fraud at scale.” Investigators say syndicates stole identities of people who never applied to college, enrolled fictional “ghost students,” and siphoned leftover grant and loan money through domestic money mules. Fox: the scheme is estimated since 2021, “potentially reaching several hundred million dollars.” That is an estimate. It is not a cash close. It is not Under Secretary Nicholas Kent’s leftover $1.7 trillion student-loan portfolio. Do not smash several hundred million into $1.7 trillion. McDonald: “Some even create the appearance of a fake student in an online classroom to trick schools into believing a real person is present.” “We have already sent a team to Kenya.” “Whether you're in Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, or Nairobi, we will pursue you.” Those are his lines. They are not findings. A Nairobi safari-company front is an allegation. It is not a conviction.
Same unused caution: a Thursday Faruqui line-by-line listing on the original Floris complaint is not a probable-cause finding this desk invents at noon. Monday leftover Comey information is not this indictment. Nov. 3 is still the election. Charges are not convictions.
What this means for you
If you needed Wednesday’s unused crime, it still stands as a strike, not a verdict. If you needed this noon’s unused paper, it is five charged, not convicted. If your name showed up on a loan you did not take, that is a bill, not your conviction. If the week is too heavy, 988.
Bottom line: Five charged. Not 40 smashed into five. Not convicted. Not Faruqui reprinted. Not 48 reprinted.
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