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Phony Soprano gets his "taste"...Northwestern University pays Trump admin "tens of millions" to end investigations
Organized crime has always had a set of cringe-worthy euphemisms for extortion...a "tribute," or "I just want to wet my beak" or "a taste..."Trump learned early on that extortion was the way to go with the media, universities, and any person or organization that refused to take a knee, and even worse, said things that made Orange Julius Caesar's butt hurt.
Here's the latest:
Northwestern University finalized a comprehensive settlement with the Trump administration that will have it fork over $75 million to the federal government over three years, Bloomberg reported Friday night.
The settlement follows similar arrangements with other prestigious institutions, including Cornell, Columbia, and Brown. Northwestern, which operates campuses in Evanston and Chicago, faced financial strain due to Trump's funding freeze and was financing research on its own.
Interim president Henry Bienen said in a statement to Bloomberg, "We must now refocus on what matters most: advancing our mission, upholding the highest standards of academic and institutional excellence, and empowering students and scholars to drive change in the world through research and innovation."
“We would not relinquish any control over whom we hire, whom we admit as students, what our faculty teach or how our faculty teach,” Bienen added. “I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case.”
https://www.rawstory.com/northwestern-university/
The settlement follows similar arrangements with other prestigious institutions, including Cornell, Columbia, and Brown. Northwestern, which operates campuses in Evanston and Chicago, faced financial strain due to Trump's funding freeze and was financing research on its own.
Interim president Henry Bienen said in a statement to Bloomberg, "We must now refocus on what matters most: advancing our mission, upholding the highest standards of academic and institutional excellence, and empowering students and scholars to drive change in the world through research and innovation."
“We would not relinquish any control over whom we hire, whom we admit as students, what our faculty teach or how our faculty teach,” Bienen added. “I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case.”
https://www.rawstory.com/northwestern-university/