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What Burke is doing could be fairly easy to cover up and make it appear legitimate. We know from Jade that he essentially bought his position at the college, likely years before Quinn came on the scene, and this plus how Tybalt behaves suggests that he is very wealthy. What he actually wanted out of this position at the college we don't know, but let's assume for the moment that one thing has done is to set up some sort of scholarship system with may be totally bogus and intended to only cover up Quinn's restaurant, or it's half genuine, half bogus. So now, theory time.the payment of a tuition (or even simply validating it without having been paid) is an accounting movement, canceling it out of spite is a financial crime not that difficult to discover
that Burke to have sex with 3-4 girls would be willing to cover their tuition seems to me a huge risk, even if he then covered the debt with his own money, it would cost him a price that is widely out of the market
that the free tuition exists is not a fact, Quinn and Riona deny its existence without tying it to the restaurant business, it is possible that the restaurant allows you to pay for it but it is a deduction (which I agree) not a fact.
We know that Vinny wanted to bring in drugs for the DIK parties and Rusty refused but Tommy was interested, so Vinny probably spoke to his contacts and got the drugs in which started his connection to these drug dealers. Since Quinn was also closely associated with them because of her Dad, perhaps she and Vinny knew each other before they came to college and so with the 2 of them there, they started this little operation with Quinn suggesting whoring out the HOTs to pay for the drugs.
Selling the drugs on campus got them into trouble and Vinny took the fall for Quinn (probably why she looked so concerned when Tommy offered to do the same as it was like history repeating itself), and he was expelled. Burke, however, knew about the girls but didn't tell anyone else so he arranged a deal with Quinn; he would provide "scholarships" to girls who join the "restauarant" under the proviso that those who sign on to that have to have sex with him and he will also pay Quinn generously for that.
The whole thing is criminal and it puts Burke at huge risk, but rich people like him often get away with it because a) they cover their tracks and can manufacture plausible deniability, and b) they're well-connected so they can use that to help them out if they were caught. For every Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein, there's a hundred more who never get found out, and even some that do are powerful enough that they can settle out of court and never see a day in prison, so it's not unbelievable to think that Burke thinks of himself as this invincible and untouchable to have no fear in doing this illicit deal.