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?