His daughter, Sofia Coppola, was so impressed with one cousin's performance that she recommended him to a friend who was casting a project titled "Rushmore".
Giegerich kept after him about it, and eventually she recommended him to the director of the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, who called him in for an interview and promptly offered him a full scholarship.
She recommended him for the gig thanks to his background as a radio announcer, and the rest is history.
She called Del Toral a hero and said she recommended him for an award while maintaining the EPA did nothing wrong in Flint.
It turns out, according to what I've read, she didn't recommend him, she wasn't the "cause" of his being chosen.
But in December, he said, the principal, Grismaldy Laboy-Wilson, said that she would not recommend him for tenure.
"His demeanor, the way he interacted with me, his high interest in being involved in his community and the city of Sanford," led her to recommend him, she told prosecutor John Guy.
He gave her his card and she thanked him and said she would call him if she needed him and would recommend him to her friends.
When Bassett asked who recommended him, Karen told him she would rather not say, in case things didn't work out.
