Today’s web bonus >> Restaurant review: Anchorage 5. marinij.com DON’T MISS OUT: NEWS MASTER 1995 GAME Mill Valley GARDENER Ex-COM PLAN YOUR FUN adding Divide and player’s Check out our online calendar conquer for upcoming concerts, art three to exhibits and meetings! perennials Super Bowl fire crew with 49ers VISIT EVENTS. H&G >> B1 EVENTS.MARINIJ.COM Local >> A3 Sports>> C1 P.M. SUN High:63 Low:48 >> PAGE C6 Saturday, February 1, 2020 $1.50 FACEBOOK.COM/MARINIJFAN TWITTER.COM/MARINIJ marinij.com » COURT FILING Mill Valley investor rips prosecutors tention that he was misled by Bill McGlashan, Suspect in college bribery scandal the corrupt college consultant Jr., leaves the turned government witness at courthouse after says key evidence being withheld the heart of the case, William making his plea “Rick” Singer, and didn’t know- for charges in the show he paid for test cheating or ingly pay for cheating. college admissions By John Woolfolk scandal. Bay Area News Group bribing coaches to admit his son “What the messages and calls to USC as a phony football kicker. show are that from McGlashan’s A Mill Valley investor who Bill McGlashan Jr., 56, ac - perspective, he was continuing founded a social justice fund for cused prosecutors of withhold- to retain Singer for his legitimate rock group U2’s frontman Bono ing potentially exonerating ev- counseling services,” the founder said in court papers Friday that idence they deemed irrelevant of the TPG Growth equity fund JOSEPH PREZIOSO — prosecutors’ evidence doesn’t that would support his con - BRIBE >> PAGE 2 GETTY IMAGES MARIN CITY SAUSALITO-MARIN CITY FULFILLING DREAMS Performing Stars: 30 years of changing lives Charter school suffers setback Judge rejects Willow Creek bid to intervene in desegregation plan By Keri Brenner [email protected] @KeriWorks on Twitter A San Francisco judge has ruled that a Sau- salito public charter school does not have the right to an official seat at the table in a deseg- regation plan underway in the Sausalito Marin City School District. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan PHOTOS BY SHERRY LAVARS — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL Schulman said Willow Creek Academy, which is authorized by the district, “is not entitled to in- Felecia Gaston, founder of Performing Stars of Marin, watches over a dress rehearsal for a Tuskegee airmen play in Marin tervention” in the plan because it lacks a suffi- City. The nonprofit organization helps at-risk youth express themselves through the arts. cient “interest relating to the property or transac- tion which is the subject of the action” — in this easy and it’s been a journey, case, the mandatory desegregation of a district By Lorenzo Morotti [email protected] but all these success stories school, Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy make it all worth it.” in Marin City. The desegregation, to be accom- A 5-year-old girl walked Now 30 years later, more plished within five years, was ordered as part past a ballet school in Mar- than 3,000 youth have of an Aug. 8 settlement with the district and a ietta, Georgia, in 1960 and gone through the program CHARTER >> PAGE 4 paused to look through the and many have gone on to glass. achieve goals they thought “I remember that long- were unreachable. ing feeling of wanting to be Performing Stars offered IMPEACHMENT there, but I couldn’t because classes, supplies and schol- of segregation,” said Felecia arships to families who Gaston, Performing Stars could not afford to pay for Trump acquittal set founder. “I always wanted their children to participate to take ballet lessons, and I in the arts. never let go of my dream. I John Lam, a principal as witnesses nixed wanted to find a way to help dancer with the Boston Bal- other children of color fulfill let, was one of those chil- By Lisa Mascaro, Eric Tucker and Zeke Robert Lewis goes over a script with young actors during a Miller their dreams.” dren. He said he is now in dress rehearsal for a Tuskegee airmen. The Associated Press In 1990 she founded Per- his 15th season with the in- forming Stars of Marin, a ternationally-recognized like it at first because I was Lam said he attended Marin WASHINGTON >> The Senate narrowly rejected nonprofit art academy that ballet company and owes the only boy,” he said. “But Ballet until he was 15 years Democratic demands to summon witnesses for serves underprivileged com- his success to Performing Felecia had arranged to take old and then Canada’s Na- President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late munities. She started the Stars. all of us to go see the San tional Ballet School in To- Friday, all but ensuring Trump’s acquittal in just program with zero budget, Lam, who was born and Francisco Ballet and I got to ronto. the third trial to threaten a president’s removal with the help of Anne Rog- raised in the Canal area see other dancers who were “Felecia helped me with in U.S. history. But senators pushed off final vot- ers and the Marin City com- in San Rafael to Vietnam- men — it was then I gave funds my family couldn’t ing on his fate to next Wednesday. munity. ese immigrants, said arts dance a chance.” provide,” he said. “I then The delay in timing showed the weight of a “I had no idea about fun- or dance were never an op- Performing Stars paid for came to Boston and have historic vote bearing down on senators, despite draising, writing grants, do- tion until she met Gaston at classes, shoes and uniforms been able to work my butt prodding by the president eager to have it all be- ing all the networking, fill- a day care. She offered him and enabled Lam to fall in off to be where I am now.” hind him in an election year and ahead of his ing out the 501(c)(3)s,” Gas- an opportunity that would love with dance. With the fi- Nichelle Haynes, State of the Union speech Tuesday night. ton said. “I’ve always stayed change his life. nancial and emotional sup- 32-year-old aesthetician, is Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch passionate. It wasn’t always “I went to class and didn’t port of Gaston’s program, STARS >> PAGE 2 ACQUITTAL >> PAGE 2 VIRUS BREXIT BUSINESS ONLINE US bars foreigners Britain officially exits D Dow Jones Get more of the story coming from China European Union 28,256.03 (-603.41) by visiting our website The U.S. has declared a public Britain officially drops out of D S&P 500 Find additional photos, albums health emergency because of the EU Friday night, 3½ years 3225.52 (-58.14) and links to our videos that a new virus that has spread to after the country voted to Nasdaq can enhance local stories. other nations. PAGE A7 walk away. PAGE A10 D 9150.94 (-148.00) MARINIJ.COM INDEX Opinion ...........A11 Obituaries .......A9 Religion ...........B2 Movies .............B3 Sports ..............C1 Classifieds .......D1 Volume 158, issue 316 0 40901 29001 8 2 | A NEWS | MARINIJ.COM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2020 TODAY IN HISTORY and other parents that the the boy to take the test over ing: “He does have really his own. government misconstrued two days, left after only one strong legs.” “The only references to Bribe evidence of their guilt or day and returned to the In his response Friday, the scheme are by Singer,” 1790 FROM PAGE 1 withheld anything point- Bay Area. Singer’s associ- McGlashan argued the McGlashan’s filing said, “af- The U.S. Supreme Court ing to their innocence. ate, they alleged, admitted prosecutors characteriza- ter he had begun cooperat- convened for the first and Bono’s Rise Fund said “They accuse the govern- correcting the son’s test an- tion of events is “rife with ing with the government.” time in New York. in Friday’s court filing. He ment of withholding evi- swers, earning him a near- misrepresentations, omis- Prosecutors countered suggested an “entrapment” dence that they acted in perfect score of 34, and Mc- sions and overstatements.” that McGlashan only defense — that the govern- good faith, were duped by Glashan sent a $50,000 He argued the fact that his backed off the “side door” 1896 ment through Singer, who Singer, or that the univer- check made out to Singer’s son didn’t use the full two after Singer tipped him off Giacomo Puccini’s opera pleaded guilty and cooper- sity was fully aware of what foundation as “payment for days he was given for the to the government’s inves- “La Boheme” premiered ated with authorities, may they were doing,” prosecu- West Hollywood Prep.” ACT doesn’t establish cor- tigation, telling him in an in Turin, Italy. have tricked him into in - tors wrote. “But that is not Prosecutors said Mc- ruption, and noted that in Oct. 24, 2018, call that “I’d criminating acts. what happened.” Glashan also conspired September 2019 his son re- rather just sorta lay low.” McGlashan is among 36 Prosecutors said they with Singer toward having took the test and scored a “During the call,” prose- 1960 wealthy parents around have provided “an extraor- his son admitted to the Uni- nearly identical 33. cutors alleged, “McGlashan Four black college the country whom federal dinary volume of evidence,” versity of Southern Califor- McGlashan added that did not dispute” that Sing- students began a sit-in prosecutors charged in the including 1.5 million emails nia through a “side door” prosecutors haven’t pro- er’s associate “had taken protest at a Wool- bombshell “Varsity Blues” and 4,000 recorded phone scheme in which he would vided evidence that the the ACT for his son and worth’s lunch counter college admissions cheating calls and text messages, and be presented as a football two Singer associates they acknowledged he still in- in Greensboro, North case announced last March, the “exculpatory evidence” recruit — a sport he didn’t say admitted helping boost tended to pursue the ‘side Carolina, where they’d more than a dozen of them McGlashan and other par- actually play.