Firm That Hired Intern in College Scandal Cuts Dad’s Company
- Compass Point lowered Hercules rating after charges filed
- Manuel Henriquez stepped down this week as debt firm’s CEO
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Hercules Capital Inc. took a beating from several research shops after Chief Executive Officer Manuel Henriquez was charged in a college-admission cheating conspiracy. One of them: the firm that gave his daughter an internship.
Henriquez’s older daughter, Isabelle, interned at Compass Point Research & Trading LLC while attending Georgetown University, she wrote on her LinkedIn profile. She got into the school after her parents allegedly paid phony proctors to help her cheat on standardized tests.