Nearly seven years ago, the nonprofit group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) brought suit against Harvard University, claiming that its admissions process illegally discriminates against Asian Americans. After protracted litigation in US District court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the case has now arrived where everyone always expected it to end up: at the doorstep of the Supreme Court.
In a forceful petition for certiorari, the plaintiffs are asking the justices to review the lower-court rulings, which accepted Harvard s claim that its race-conscious admissions process passes muster under Supreme Court precedents especially the 2003 case of
Grutter v. Bollinger, which allowed the University of Michigan to take race into account in the interests of achieving diversity. But SFFA goes farther. It wants the court to overrule
BOSTON A Centerville woman was sentenced to 70 months in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to charges connected to embezzling $1.5 million from two of her previous employers.
Jessica Greenan, 42, was also given five years of supervised release by U.S. District Court judge Allison Burroughs, and Greenan was ordered to pay restitution back to fraud victims and the IRS, and give up two of her vehicles.
Greenan pleaded guilty in November to 12 counts of wire fraud, seven counts of filing false federal tax returns, and two counts of aggravated identity theft in two criminal cases for embezzling.
At the time, she had admitted to embezzling money from Powderhorn Outfitters in Hyannis, where she had been handling payroll and bookkeeping services. From October 2014 until she was terminated in March 2018, she embezzled $1.1 million, wiring funds from the store’s operating account to pay her credit card bills.