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here's the ny post version of fig tech fb fake punter
Posted Tue, Mar 12 5:43 pm
To help the son of one co-defendant, California equity firm executive William McGlashan Jr., get into the University of Southern California, Singer said they would create a bogus athletic profile for the teen, according to court filings.

“I’ll pick a sport and we’ll do a picture of him, or … we’ll put his face on a picture, whatever,” Singer allegedly told the McGlashan. “I’ve already done that a million times.”

When McGlashan volunteered photos of his son playing lacrosse, Singer shot it down, because USC doesn’t field a lacrosse team.

Singer later left a voicemail message for McGlashan, intercepted by a federal wiretap, in which he laid out his plan to pass McGlashan’s son off to the USC football team as a special-teams whiz — even though his high school didn’t even have a football squad.

“I’m gonna make him a kicker/punter and they’re gonna walk him through with football,” Singer told McGlashan. “I’ll get a picture and figure out how to Photoshop and stuff … so we’ll put a bunch of stuff about that on his profile, and we should be in pretty good shape to get that done.”

When McGlashan called back moments later, Singer said that they would explain away the son’s purported kicking prowess by saying he attended a kicking camp outside of school.

“He does have really strong legs,” McGlashan responded with a laugh, according to court filings.

“So what I’ll probably need, if you guys have any pictures of him playing multiple sports, or something where you can kind of see his face a little bit in the action?” said Singer. “It would be helpful because I will Photoshop him onto a kicker.”

McGlashan again laughed at the idea, saying, “Pretty funny. The way the world works these days is unbelievable.”

Singer then regaled McGlashan with a tale of helping another parent present their son as a water polo player.

“When the dad sent me the picture, he was way too high out of the water,” said Singer. “That nobody would believe that anybody could get that high.”

“So I told that dad, I said, ‘What happened?’” Singer recalled. “He said he was standing on the bottom !”