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Former Investor Caught In College Admission Scam To Fight Legal Battle Over Severance

MADIE HERB | April 12, 2019 | 139 views

Bill McGlashan has been caught in a scandal related to college admissions. He is an investor at the Silicon Valley. This 55 years aged financier is presently busy squaring off trade with TPG, which is a buyout company at Texas. He is known to have some profitable shares in companies like Airbnb, Box and Uber. These stakes are considered to be worth few hundred million dollars. TPG is not ready to give any severance to McGlashan. Marc Kasowitz, who is the legal head of the company and has also worked as a lawyer for President Donald Trump commented that the company is not liable to pay to the financier as he is involved in the college admission scandal.

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