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As [the students] prepared to collect their diplomas, their commencement speaker, Rob Hale, a billionaire philanthropist from Boston, returned to the dripping podium. He brought along two cash-stuffed duffel bags, he announced, and would hand every graduate $1,000 as they crossed the stage — $500 to keep for themselves, and $500 to give to any good cause.
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It is the fourth Massachusetts college campus in the last four years where Mr. Hale has thrilled graduates with his signature split gift. Each time, he has selected a public school with high concentrations of first-generation and lower-income students who have “worked their tails off to get there,” he said.
Hale has no Wikipedia page.
Look, if billionaires want to launder their bloodsoaked reputations I'd rather they do something useful like handing a bunch of college grads $1k in cash instead of laundering it into their own foundations to spend on eugenics experiments or whatever.