Posted on 03/12/2019 6:56:37 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and a slew of chief executives are among 50 wealthy people charged in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice, federal officials said Tuesday.
Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.
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Holy crap - how embarrassing is it to be the kid your parents had to bribe the school $6.5MM to let you in?
I think that I work with graduates of this scholarship program.
Ummm. Stanford and USC are private. At USC, Doheny library was built to get his kid admitted. USC has always been very open about it. Now if someone was pocketing money on the side... well that is a different story.
My parents only paid a quarter a week for the neighbor kids to be my friend!
I don’t get it. Were AOC’s parents rich?
Yep..Lori Loughlin’s daughter who according to her youtube channel “Doesnt like school or studying” sounds like an AOC type of dumb ass..how must she feel that her mother knows what a moron she is, had to pay a half a mil to get her into USC..but I think Lori and Felicity, they didnt do this FOR their kids they did it for themselves, to improve their image
Just a little more available money, buy a building, hint the college is in your will, and the kid is a shoo-in legacy.
It must suck to be at that level, but not the next one, or to only have that much money but not the fame/cachet to push on through. Does anyone think that Malia had to worry about admission to Harvard? Or that Chelsea had to worry about admission to Oxford graduate school for a guaranteed accepted Ph.D. program and thesis? Or that a 2nd or 3rd generation Rockefeller or Kennedy ever got rejected from a college they wished to attend?
Izzat Dick Van Dyke in the picture?
I guess this means parents will have to help their kids cut the line ahead of the other, more deserving kids the old-fashioned way: by Affirmative Action.
Speaking of Doheny ...
In the 1920s, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal and accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.
The funny thing is, Doheny was acquitted of offering a bribe Fall was convicted of accepting. Think about that. During the trial, Fall said what Doheny offered was not “One hundred thousand dollars,” but “One hundred cows and horses.” LOL
I don’t know, but someone is going to need Matlock to sort this out. Or Jackie Chiles.
LOL
At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law,
finance, fashion, the food and beverage industry and other fields, were charged. ....
Authorities said coaches in such sports as soccer, sailing, tennis, water polo
and volleyball took payoffs to put students on lists of recruited athletes,
regardless of their ability or experience. ....
Why don’t we have the names of these prominent people? Why did they only release the two names?
the names have been posted on Free Republic and the court documents are public with the indictments and names. Don’t expect the media to do it, almost all of them are Democrat donors.
"Today's arrests should be a warning to others: You can't pay to play, you can't
cheat to get ahead because you will get caught," Bonavolonta said.
Others charged in the case are: John Vandemoer, 41, the head sailing coach at Stanford University Gordon Ernst, 52, former head coach of men and women's tennis at Georgetown University Ali Khoroshahin, 49, the former head coach of women's soccer at USC Laura Janke, 36, former assistant coach of women's soccer at USC Jorge Salcedo, 46, the former head coach of men's soccer at UCLA Michael Center, 54, the had coach of men's tennis at the University of Texas at Austin Martin Fox, 62, president of a private tennis academy in Houston Gamal Abdelaziz, 62, of Las Vegas Diane Blake, 55, and Todd Blake, 53, of San Francisco Jane Buckingham, 50, of Beverly Hills I-Hin "Joey" Chen, 64, of Newport Beach Amy Colburn, 59, and Gregory Colburn, 61, of Palo Alto, California Robert Flaxman, 62, of Laguna Beach, California Elizabeth Henriquez, 56, and Manuel Henriquez, 55, of Atherton, California Douglas Hodges, 61, of Laguna Beach, California Agustin Huneeus Jr., 53, of San Francisco Bruce Isackson, 61, and Davina Isackson, 55, of Hillsborough, California Michelle Janavs, 48, of Newport Coast, California Elisabeth Kimmel, 54, of Las Vegas Marjorie Klapper, 50, of Menlow Park, California Toby MacFarlane; 56; of Del Mar, California Devin Sloane, 53, of Los Angeles John Wilson, 59, of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts Homayoun Zadeh, 57, of Calabasas, California Marci Palatella, 63, of Healdburg, California Peter Jan Sartorio, 53, of Menlo Park, California Stephen Semprevivo, 53, of Los Angeles.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The ruling class controls not only what they teach in college.
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