Private jet donors, REVEALED

Howdy! Welcome to your Wednesday FOIAball.

I hope you’ve been enjoying your week so far. And I hope that me popping up in your inbox makes your week just a little bit better. 

Let’s dive in. 

Last week, you may recall (or you don’t, that’s okay, too!) that I wrote an explainer on how to donate a private jet to the athletics department of a public university. 

Sure, there are other noble causes, like flying donated kidneys to operating rooms, but what’s more vital: organs or Orange Bowls?

In that story, I mentioned how schools are really good at keeping the names of donors under wraps. 

Schools may say these individuals deserve privacy. I think, after figuring out who some of these people are, universities are just embarrassed. 

I mean, would you want your friends to know you have to hitch rides with a vodka-chugging real estate developer who posts memes of mascots performing fellatio, who got hit with a dress code violation at a Barstool party, and who thinks Ron DeSantis turned Florida into a liberal hellhole because he couldn’t wear a shirt that says “bitch” to the Gator Bowl? 

I mean, I would, but I’m not an august institution of higher learning.