Cornell did almost nothing in the case of the "Cornell 7," the fraternity members accused in a lawsuit of drugging and gang r*ping a student in 2024. No one was charged, and records show most of them stayed enrolled. If you missed my video, watch it first.
I figured if they handled this case the way they did, then they probably had skeletons. So, I followed the the money, and I was right, it's bad.
Highlights below:
(1) Cornell's 2025 tax return has a line that reads "LEGAL MATTERS: $878,000,000." It's for a Cornell doctor who abused patients, some as young as 13. Cornell admitted to federal prosecutors that it sat on complaints about him for six years. When another hospital asked why he left, his department chair didn't tell them, and he kept abusing patients there.
(2) Cornell owns the fraternity house where the assault allegedly happened. Three months after it suspended the chapter, Cornell's official Giving Day website was still raising money for that house. It told donors their gifts show "we are in this together and supporting the ongoing success of Chi Phi." Cornell has since deleted the page but I have the archived copy.
(3) Federal law requires colleges to report money from foreign governments and foreign organizations. Qatar has paid Cornell about $2.3 billion since 2001 to run a Cornell medical school in Doha, and another $1.08 billion is promised through 2032. Cornell didn't report more than $1 billion of that money until federal investigators came asking in 2019. In 2024 Cornell's top lawyer swore its reports were up to date. Then this year Cornell disclosed that its 2020 Qatar contract has conditions tied to faculty employment, which it had never reported before. So a foreign-funded foundation run by Qatar's ruling family is paying billions with strings attached, and the public keeps learning about it years late.
(4) While the abuse liability grew past $1 billion, Cornell's audits called it "not material." Moody's flagged the legal claims in March 2024, and days later Cornell sold $1.1 billion in bonds to investors.
(5) The firm lobbying Washington for Cornell's medical school is also a paid foreign agent for the Embassy of Qatar.
(6) Cornell paid $13.5 million to Paul Weiss, the law firm whose chairman cut a deal with Trump and then resigned over his Jeffrey Epstein emails. That firm represented Cornell's medical school in the federal abuse investigation.
(7) The DA declined the fraternity case of the Cornell 7.
(8) A federal lawsuit alleges Cornell kept "VIP watch lists" of applicants tied to major donors.
(9) Cornell's own survey shows the share of undergraduate women reporting nonconsensual sexual contact rose from 23% to 35% in two years. Its Title IX office has four staff, while it pays a single law firm more than $6.5 million a year.
Cornell takes ~ $800M/year year in federal research money and pays no tax on billions in property. This is what that money protects.
More to come....