| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Chinese millionaire paid close top double the asking price for a home owned by Harvard's fencing coach just months before his son was recruited by the man and offered a spot at the Ivy League University. The Boston Globe reports that entrepreneur Jie 'Jack' Zhao purchased the Massachusetts home of Harvard's fencing coach Peter Brand in 2016 for $989,500, despite the fact that he had never seen the property and its assessed value was $549,300. A short time later his son Edward, 19, was recruited by Brand for the fencing squad and then accepted into Harvard. |