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    Default Accepting Need-Based Student Scholarship Money on False Pretenses

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: MI

    I thank you for your insight and helpful replies. I just have one last question that I was wondering if someone might be able to answer. I have a friend who was reported to the police by a vindictive ex for accepting need-based scholarship money from a private donor, which resulted in a fully-funded graduate school career at an elite university ($$$$). However, the donor philanthropist family had absolutely no idea that the student was receiving about $50,000 a year in money from his deceased father's life insurance payments. He also applied for and received a second private need-based scholarship through the graduate school itself, which allowed him to receive reimbursement for his internship work unlike any of the other students. Does this student stand potential fraud charges for doing this, and hiding the fact that he actually had ample assets of his own?

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    Default Re: Accepting Student Scholarship Money on False Pretenses

    This is between the philanthropist family, the graduate school, and himself. He may get sued but I don't see anything that would rise to the level of criminal fraud.

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    This is between the philanthropist family, the graduate school, and himself. He may get sued but I don't see anything that would rise to the level of criminal fraud.
    Depends what he wrote on his applications. If he lied about about his financial circumstances and then signed that his lies were truth, then that could be criminal.

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    I understand, thank you for your help. In the case of the philanthropy family, money was given without any applications because they already knew him and liked him, however they assumed he was dirt poor and needed the money when he wasn't. The university scholarship just required an essay but was still premised on being need based.

    Very interesting what is considered a crime and what isn't in this country. To me this seems completely immoral and victimizing to the level of a major crime, but guess it's not:

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    Why is it a crime to accept money - that your friend didn't even ask for! - from a philanthropy family? It's not your friend's fault that the philanthropy family made an erroneous assumption about his financial situation! Same with the university.

    Really, if I was handing out great big sums of money to needy people, I most definitely require proof of said neediness. I most definitely would not assume that all people in this world are truthful and therefore only truly needy people will be coming to me with their hands out. If I willy-nilly, no questions asked, handed out a large sum of money to a person who later turned out to be not-so-needy, who's to blame for that? The not-so-needy person who never lied to me, who possibly didn't even ask me for the money, or me for not doing even the least little bit of due diligence in protecting my money to ensure it goes to the rightful person?

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