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.
They don't call USC the "University of Spoiled Children" for nothing.
To the galleys with all of them!
Ramming speed!
Mossimo Giannulli wasn’t worried about his daughter’s
education - he was looking for ‘elite’ husbands for the two...
“$6 million to get your kid into Yale.
What is wrong with these people?”
Yes, our youngest daughter was accepted to virtually all of the schools mentioned. She ended up going to Boston University and obtaining a Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Performance Music (Opera). She’s working as a Marketing Manager. Never did squat with her “degree.” And no one in her family paid off anyone for her to gain admittance, but we’re are still paying on our home mortgage for her tuition.
The whole university “system” across the country is predicated on liberating parents life savings (or student loans) for mostly useless degrees from equally useless “professors” (who earn inordinate salaries far beyond their worth as teachers) who spend a large portion of each year living large off of the money they earn in some far off place.
Just a guess but maybe rich East and Left Coasters who were too busy with their own careers to pay much attention to their sprong?
More likely they don’t want to be the subject of cocktail party whispers of “did you know that her daughter could not get accepted anyplace better than ASU?” It’s all a status thing with them.
Target may have to drop the clothing line.
Also....what the hell is wrong with ASU?
well with a $25 million scheme on the table I can understand why the number of agents as well as just the arrests alone would require a number of agents for 33 people.........and this is ongoing...they’re not finished yet.
I'm laughing so hard at that one I can hardly breathe!
Since this is still ongoing imagine those in Hollywood and otherwise who have done this not yet caught! They’re not going to be sleeping very well.
Yes, our youngest daughter was accepted to virtually all of the schools mentioned. She ended up going to Boston University and obtaining a Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Performance Music (Opera). She’s working as a Marketing Manager. Never did squat with her “degree.” And no one in her family paid off anyone for her to gain admittance, but we’re are still paying on our home mortgage for her tuition.
The whole university “system” across the country is predicated on liberating parents life savings (or student loans) for mostly useless degrees from equally useless “professors” (who earn inordinate salaries far beyond their worth as teachers) who spend a large portion of each year living large off of the money they earn in some far off place.
Not for nothing but you could have said no. I’m sure UMass has a similar program for a lot less.
LMAO!!! The Democrat Party, their, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, Low Life Educators, their “Scum and Vermin” rank & file party members, their America haters, their POTUS, Trump haters, their Jew & Israel haters their Cuba & Venezuela lovers, etc. are having a ball subverting our higher education tip top schools with thugs, criminals, parents & teachers destroy fairness and equality in our top schools.
How anyone in the USA Republic could ever cast any vote for these SATAN loving, evil human beings, is far beyond the reason of any decent and fair American citizen. Shame on all of you gutter, garbage, trash, idiots that call themselves Democrats. LMAO!!!
Mossimo is fashion guy behind Target as per Rush.
Just a theory. The reason the husbands haven’t been indicted is because the women are going to play the sex card.
“In most cases, the students did not know their admission was contingent on a bribe.”
Yeah- a kid who was never on a crew team, all of a sudden gets admitted to a BIG university as a crew member. Sounds like the kid probably wouldn’t have known!!
What a joke of a statement!!
These asshats could of taken a seat away from my kid at one of these schools!!
Is there a lawsuit against one of these schools by me?? Hmmmm!!!!
Laz would hit it!!!
Idiots, they should have simply had their kids mark “Native American Indian” as their race.
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