THIS IS KIND OF EMBARRASSING:

A convicted felon who worked as a volunteer research assistant for a Yale Law School professor allegedly capitalized on his Yale connection to swindle millions of dollars out of undocumented Irish immigrants. Posing as an attorney who worked for the Yale Immigration Law Clinic, investigators say, Ralph Cucciniello promised to fix his victims’ immigration problems and get them green cards for a fee of around $5,000.

One of the strong points of the Yale Law School is that it’s a functioning anarchy. But that has its downside, as this illustrates.