Howard 3L Allegedly Earns $430,000 In Last Year ... Though The Legal Term Would Be "Embezzled"

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Howard 3L Allegedly Earns $430,000 In Last Year… Though The Legal Term Would Be ‘Embezzled’

He was also set to work in Biglaw, but I don't think that's going to happen now.

By ELIE MYSTAL
at 1:33 PM

There’s a fairly epic student loan scandal enveloping Howard University just at the moment. Reports have surfaced that Howard officials stole nearly $1,000,000 in student financial funds through a series of fake scholarships and grants. The university has already fired six people.

The Heavy reports on the details of the scam:

{B}ogus grants were “created and awarded to financial aid employees who were also registered for University courses. In some cases, these employees qualified for tuition remission and therefore weren’t charged tuition for their classes. Despite this, they still received large grants and scholarships that exceeded amounts generally awarded to normal students. These grants almost always exceeded legally allowed amounts.”

At or near the center of this scandal is Howard Law 3L Tyrone Hankerson Jr., a former student-employee at the financial aid office. He might also be a “former” law student, but while some people are saying he’s been kicked out of school, Hankerson says he’s still there.

Hankerson allegedly embezzled $429,000 from the Howard between 2014 and 2017.
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But… instead of all that, let’s look at Tyrone Hankerson’s Instagram, because the brother was getting stuff with (not) his money.

Link to tweet

Tyrone was living his best life.

[Sancho]

1. Nice coordinated look...maybe he's a fashion consultant on the side?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. More:

Link to the first Twitter tweet. The second one is already clickable.

This man stole $429,000 in Financial Aid at Howard y’all Tyrone Hankerson, a student-employee in the Financial Aid office. Set to graduate! & Got caught This the iconic photo we found on his Facebook😭😭✊🏾 Mink Coat, Designer Bag, the FINESSE GOD TYRONE ☠️☠️I am DEAD

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Back to Above the Law:

Howard 3L Allegedly Earns $430,000 In Last Year… Though The Legal Term Would Be ‘Embezzled’
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Tyrone didn’t think the financially flush times would end after law school. Our sources tell us that he has secured a Biglaw job at Arent Fox. From a tipster:

{Tyrone Hankerson} was a summer intern at Arent Fox in the summers of 2016 and 2017, a current law clerk, and was a recipient of their $15k 2016 Diversity Scholarship. The firm has attempted to remove all evidence of Hankerson being an employee and scholarship recipient.

Screenshots (that have been deleted)





That’s gonna leave a mark.

Above the Law asked Arent Fox about Hankerson’s job status. Here’s a statement from the firm:

Mr. Hankerson’s relationship is now on hold pending the outcome of an investigation. We have no further comment at this time.

Hankerson, for his part, maintains his innocence.

ABC News has received the following statement on behalf of Tyrone Hankerson Jr.

Link to tweet

There are many more tweets at that account about this incident.