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“1999: I was a senior at a Catholic high school in Virginia. We had a new freshman enrolled who claimed to be Stephen Spielberg’s nephew, ‘Jonathan Spielberg.’ He attended the school for a semester or two in order to ‘conduct research for a film role,’ ingratiating himself with the other ninth graders.”
“He received free tuition and special privileges from the principal, who was frequently seen walking through the halls with his arm across Jonathan’s shoulders. The principal, who was a priest and former Navy Reserve chaplain, even gave up his own parking space so Jonathan could park his BMW with his ‘Splberg’ plates in the spot.
Eventually, Jonathan stopped coming, and concerned administrators dug deeper into his file to contact him, his family, or his previous schools.
Turns out, there was no Jonathan Spielberg. All the enrollment documents and transcripts were fake. He was actually a 28-year-old who lived locally with his mother in a small apartment.
From memory, I think he was charged with fraud but given a suspended sentence and served no time. The principal, who was always an angry and mean man, was recused from his position at the end of the year when the Catholic order of priests he belonged to withdrew from the school, and he got promoted by the Navy.”
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