The Ivy: Scandal
the upper left-hand side of the board where several index cards bore his handwriting.

FACT: The Ivy Insider had Callie’s username and password.
FACT: The Ivy Insider had access to “inside” Pudding information=>is likely a veteran member of the Pudding.
FACT: The Ivy Insider had access to the Crimson offices=>is likely a staff member or COMPer of the Crimson or FM.
    Callie stared at the list of “facts.” Vanessa was right. There was only one person on the board who was in the Pudding, was on FM , and was certainly devious enough to have somehow determined Callie’s password.
    Alexis Thorndike.
    A faint shadow fell across the photograph of Alexis as the sun started to sink behind the brick buildings and towering trees outside in Harvard Yard. Chestnut curls framed porcelain skin and a smile that—darkening in the wake of the setting sun—sent chills down Callie’s spine.
    “I know you did it,” Callie muttered, staring at her archrival’s likeness. What I don’t know—yet—is how to prove it.
    “Don’t worry,” said Vanessa, placing a hand on Callie’s shoulder. “It’s only a matter of time until you find a way….”
    Pursing his lips, Matt tacked a final item onto the lower right-hand corner of the board. It was the notice alerting Callie to her mid-May hearing date with the Student-Faculty Judicial Board: a grim reminder that, unfortunately, time was also running out.

I Pledge Allegiance

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    “TODAY’S GOSSIP IS TOMORROW’S NEWS.”
    >>IVY LEAGUE >>HARVARD >>STUDENT BODY SCANDALS >>GREGORY BOLTON
    Harvard Student Flees Campus
    Following Father’s Hedge Fund Fiasco
    #FirstWorldProblems #RichWhiteBoyProblems #HedgeFundScandals #HarvardCampusCelebs
    He may still have his smarts , looks , and a bangin’ hot girlfriend , but Harvard University freshman Gregory Bolton’s trust fund, estimated at way more money than our collective readership will probably see in a lifetime , has barely enough left to fund his tuition.
    *Cue “The Ballad of Rich White Boy Suffering”*
    No, but seriously, you’ve got to feel at least a little bit bad for the guy. According to sources at the Crimson , he’s been absent from campus for over a week now, rumored to have fled in the middle of the night before the scandal broke surrounding his famed—now infamous —hedge fund founding father Pierce Bolton’s alleged use of personal funds to pay off investors after a series of toxic investments. Well, shucks, you’d probably run away if Daddy lost all of your classmates’ parents’ money, too!

    Perhaps the most ominous development for the younger Bolton in the unfolding scandal is the widely circulating rumor that investors at Bolton and Stamford Enterprises may have been paid off largely with assets originating from a trust fund in Gregory’s name. (Prior to his eighteenth birthday, his father, Pierce, acted as trustee for the account.)
    So exactly how complicit is the young Mr. Bolton? Did he have no idea Daddy was pilfering an account set up for him by his late mother, or did he, a former summer intern at Bolton and Stamford, authorize the transactions willingly? No doubt the SEC is also quite curious. Though a criminal complaint still has yet to be filed against Pierce Bolton, certain financial insiders swear that it’s “only a matter of time.”
    It may be too soon, however, to predict that Gregory might eventually trade his single in Wigglesworth, a Harvard dormitory, for bunk beds with Daddy in a white-collar clinker.
    Earlier today the New York Times reported that a huge “miracle investment” from Constantine Capital Investments in Bolton and Stamford Enterprises is likely to keep the firm afloat even in spite of the large number of withdrawals requested by clientele over the past week.
    Is it just a coincidence, then, that the confirmed girlfriend of the younger Mr. Bolton is Alessandra Constantine , a sophomore at Harvard University?
    We think not!
    Ms. Constantine declined to comment, though a

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