Richard Blum, a regent of the University of California system and husband to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), has found himself entangled in a college admissions scandal after a state audit revealed that he wrote an “inappropriate letter of support” for a student the audit found was unlikely to be admitted based on merit alone.
While the state audit did not directly name him, a spokesperson for the auditor’s office confirmed his identity to Mercury News on Thursday morning, and Blum has since admitted to writing such letters “a bunch of times” for family members and friends.
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