Ozy Media has stiffed a dozen college kids out of their $10,000 “Genius Awards” after the troubled news site’s disgraced founder Carlos Watson was arrested on federal fraud charges, The Post …
Ozy Media launched its Genius Awards in 2015.
“It’s been, honestly, such a roller coaster,” Youssef Hasweh, a 2023 Genius Award winner and 21-year-old junior at the University of Chicago, told The Post. “That said, should you find additional opportunities for financing your summer– please do explore them,” Watson told Hasweh in a March 16 email. When reached for comment, Kenneth Montgomery, a lawyer representing Ozy Media and the Watson family in the upcoming fraud trial, blamed the company’s inability to follow through on its funding pledge on the federal indictment — which targeted both Watson as an individual and the company itself.
Students received a rough timeline for how the program would proceed. One-on-one meetings with Ozy staffers were set up for February and a connection to a professional “mentor” for May.
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