Posted on 03/12/2019 7:57:28 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Actresses and chief executives are among 50 people arrested in a nationwide college admissions cheating scam, authorities announced Tuesday.
According to charging documents, actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among those involved facing charges.
The suspects allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their kids into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and USC.
In most cases, the students did not know their admission was contingent on a bribe.
University athletic coaches and administrators of college entrance exams were also among those arrested.
The alleged scam centered around a man in California who ran a business helping students get into the college of their choice.
Authorities say parents would pay him a predetermined amount, with full knowledge of what they were doing. He would then steer the money to one of two places: either an SAT or ACT administrator, or a college athletic coach.
The coaches would allegedly arrange a fake profile that listed the prospective student as an athlete, and exam administrators would either hire proctors to take the test or correct the answers of a student.
The bribes ranged from a few thousand dollars to up to 6 million, according to officials. The charging documents, unsealed in Boston federal court, are more than 200 pages long.
They allege that Huffman and her husband "made a purported charitable contribution of $15,000...to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. Huffman later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so."
Federal agents say they have recorded telephone calls with Huffman and a cooperating witness.
The documents say the Loughlin and her husband "agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team -- despite the fact that they did not participate in crew -- thereby facilitating their admission to USC."
Official say they have emails from Loughlin.
schools not seen as co conspirators.
Singer calibrated the sport’s ability as sufficient to be admitted but not spectacular for suspicion.
My point!!!......of ALL the criminals we’ve been following politically for 3 years....
And these folks get arrested??????
Ah, they should have just said John Stamos’ girlfriend from “Full House”.
The FBI just announced that they had 300 agents working this case, at least on the arrest phase which occurred today. I wonder if automatic weapons were involved? I also wonder about how this scam stacks up against other crimes, like, say, The Clinton email fraud, the Clinton Foundation, the Deep State conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government. Are 300 agents working those cases?
White Liberal Elites show us their ‘ethics’... AND yeah, these ARE the progressives who want to run our country.
“My point!!!......of ALL the criminals we’ve been following politically for 3 years....
And these folks get arrested??????”
Yeah, isn’t that ironic.....
Nice birthday present she gave to her husband, who btw, was a ‘wretched student’ by his own admission, he transferred to Goddard College in rural Vermont where he studied under playwright David Mamet.
Wonder if they got the same treatment as Roger Stone?
Trump DOJ Finally Charges someone with something!!!!!
WHOOP WHOOP!!!!
Felicity daughter got 2x the amount of time to take SAT. Then they arranged for someone to change her answers. She got a 1420, a 400 point increase over SAT.
If in college now, she will be expelled.
One doesn't really recall which Cary Grant movie it was or what actress was in the role of "Miss Goody Two-shoes" - Possibly Deborah Kerr... However, the character Mary Poppins, who admittedly never appeared in any movie opposite any character played by Cary Grant, does come to mind...
Uncle Jesse is gonna be pissed!
Dershowit is telling the truth on FOX right now - these scams work because Universities don’t fail anyone. In the old days kids who didn’t do the work were failed out - the first two semesters or so.... Today they sit there until they get diplomas in ‘grievance studies’...
He wasn't the one indicted.
And nobody wants to wake up to see his picture in the paper.
No wonder the guy is so good at playing a grifter.
Seriously, though, why wasn't he indicted?
I see a huge classs action case in the future.those application fees and college admission consultants can be very expensive.
Yep, under Obama you'd never see the FBI going after corrupt white liberal elites...
Good for the FBI and DOJ...
As for Loughlin, she and her husband — Mossimo Giannulli, the founder of Mossimo clothing — allegedly paid $500,000 to have their 2 daughters designated as recruits for the crew team at USC ... despite the fact they did not actually participate in crew. However, the feds say Mossimo sent action photos of their daughters on rowing machines.
Mossimo, who was also charged, took a cheap shot at one university. According to the indictment, he wrote an email saying he wanted to “make sure we have a roadmap for success as it relates to [our daughter] and getting her into a school other than ASU!”
As for Huffman, she and her husband, William H. Macy, allegedly made a charitable contribution of $15,000 to participate in a college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of their eldest daughter. The indictment says the daughter was given twice the amount of time to take the SAT as other students and the paid proctor agreed to secretly correct her answers afterwards.
The indictment says the girl received a score of 1420 on her SAT ... an improvement of approximately 400 points over her PSAT.
Macy was not indicted.
Mossimo, who was also charged, took a cheap shot at one university. According to the indictment, he wrote an email saying he wanted to "make sure we have a roadmap for success as it relates to [our daughter] and getting her into a school other than ASU!"
“I don’t know how much of school I’m gonna attend but I’m gonna go in and talk to my deans and everyone, and hope that I can try and balance it all. But I do want the experience of like game days, partying...I don’t really care about school, as you guys all know.”
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