Former Mizzou tutor wanting money in exchange for NCAA violation evidence
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The recent academic fraud situation allegedly involving Missouri student-athletes took another bizarre turn on Friday.
Yolanda Kumar — the tutor involved with the cheating scandal — issued a series of rather fascinating tweets. Her goal is to attend graduate school. With that said, she’s unable to receive copies of her official transcript from Missouri until her outstanding balance is paid off.
Kumar hopes to gain the necessary amount ($3,089.99) in exchange for a detailed amount of information on the NCAA investigation:
Needing my @mizzou transcripts. TOO POOR to pay account balance $3089.99. Willing to trade academic fraud list. #desperate times
— Yolanda Kumar ☪ (@Muslimgirl1973) March 3, 2017
I have already met with NCAA and the university. Those details are negotiable.
— Yolanda Kumar ☪ (@Muslimgirl1973) March 3, 2017
Email, assignments, schools, course, text messages are all up for grabs. al la carte or the entire package up sale. #SOS #freemytranscripts
— Yolanda Kumar ☪ (@Muslimgirl1973) March 3, 2017
#freemytranscripts #desperatetimes #desperatemeasures @mizzou no love lost, but a girls got to do what a girls go to do.
— Yolanda Kumar ☪ (@Muslimgirl1973) March 3, 2017
$3089.99 is impossible to pay when you're unemployed and late on your rent. #damnCoMO #freemytranscripts @mizzou
— Yolanda Kumar ☪ (@Muslimgirl1973) March 3, 2017
For only $3089.99, you can know who didn't do their own work #academicfraud #mizzou #freemytranscripts
— Yolanda Kumar ☪ (@Muslimgirl1973) March 3, 2017
Kumar isn’t motivated by garnering a huge sum of money, as she told The Kansas City Star:
“Some people are still on that — ‘It’s a money grab’ — but I’m not trying to bank on anything. It’s about my (darn) pieces of paper with my grades on it. I’ve already told the truth, so you can’t say I didn’t cooperate and was trying to make money. … I went through all the proper channels and everyone said no, so I’m just surviving. That’s all I’m doing. I’m in survival mode. I just want the transcripts so I can move on with my life, because no one wants to hire me here (in Columbia).”
This investigation first came to light in November of this past year. Kumar worked on and off for six years as a tutor for Mizzou student-athletes.
Some of her responsibilities included ensuring that athletes were academically eligible (particularly men’s basketball and football players). Kumar also allegedly “completed their classes, took tests, and answered assessment questions.”
Kumar called executive associate athletic director Mary Ann Austin, and told her of what had been occurring. At the time, the tutor had this to say:
“I think about what I’ve done and I cry, not because I’m sad or I’m weak, but because I’m so angry that I didn’t use my voice to say no. I was at my wit’s end. I had pretty much had enough, and I felt good that I had told her. Then, I realized I had opened all the evil and now the evil was out of the box and you can’t put it back in.”
