LOS ANGELES — For weeks, Rep. Karen Bass has faced intensifying questions over her free University of California master's degree in social work while in Congress.
The Los Angeles Times reported last month that Bass was awarded a scholarship to USC's social work school without having directly applied and that the scholarship, valued at $95,000, had drawn her into a federal corruption case involving the school's former dean, Marilyn Flynn.
Amid the controversy, Bass was pressed at a mayoral debate last week by one of the moderators, Seth Lemon, who asked, "To be clear, you formally applied — completed an application?"
