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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.
I admit to being surprised to see that she is involved in this.
Hahaha hahaha! You’re funny! Liberal politicians or celebrities don’t go to prison! Prison’s reserved for dangerous conservative criminals, like Dinesh D’Souza (sarc) or senior citizen Bill Cosby.
There is nothing wrong with ASU. My daughter went there as an undergraduate and graduated from Southern Cal law school. Didn’t pay to get her in. She is much smarter than her dad.
THIS is why we desperately need national testing for all subjects, to adjudicate what you know, and what you don't know, AND, to once and for all put an end to the myth of ‘elite’ institutions. If you graduate from Yale Law, for example, but don't pass the DC Bar, but people from many, many state Law schools and lesser stature law schools do (this is factual), what does that tell you about the ‘greatness’ of Yale Law School - or of any ‘elite’ law school for that matter? This is true for all areas of study, including medicine.
Probably not true since he was in the national news at the time and people would remember who was president of the Law Review.
Macy and actress Felicity Huffman dated on-and-off for 15 years and married on September 6, 1997.
He is a fantastic actor, though.
Just one more thing.......
I’d like to see the rest of the NBC mystery movie shows pop up.
I have most of the DVDS though.
If the FBI assigned 300 agents to this its proof positive that the FBI is WAAAAAAY too big.
With all due respect, then you've bought into the total bs of the system. If your father was a plumber, and your mother a housewife, does that mean that someone whose parents both have degrees from Princeton is automatically brighter? NO, it doesn't. It does mean, in my opinion, that you probably had more emphasis on education at home, and were privy to a lot more knowledge about how to navigate school and get in to where you want to go. That, however, is not the same as being intrinsically brighter. We need to get beyond this ridiculous mindset.
No offense meant, but do you think that all Rhodes Scholars are tremendously bright? Bill Clinton was one, and had unimpressive SAT scores. There are bright people everywhere, and lots of people are late bloomers.
Exactly..there are much more important things to investigate than parents paying off schools to get their dumb ass kids enrolled..now do I think its a crime having someone else take the college entrance exam, absolutely..they should be prosecuted, but really, 300 FBI agents for this, gotta be kidding me
Big whoop! The rich have been doing this for their kids forever. Not only to get them into the colleges, but to keep them from being kicked out.
costs lots to get your brat in to a good college if they have the I Q of a banana slug.
6 million to get your kid into Yale.
Big whoop! The rich have been doing this for their kids forever. Not only to get them into the colleges, but to keep them from being kicked out.
“W” comes to mind...
Anyone taking bets on the parent’s political affiliation? I have my own thought but I COULD BE WRONG! People who don’t believe in playing by the rules would do such a thing as this and those people are usually -
W H O?
“W” comes to mind...
John Kerry as well.
Rest assured they are both flaming libs look at their twitter pages.
“Huffman then went on to say, “My two daughters are special and will be attending a much more elite college than this disgusting person that was elected by the stupid people of this country.”
Ah, karma. It’s a beautiful thing!!
Huneeus is a big time Napa Winemaker. Used to own Franciscan, still owns Quintessa I think. Another reason not to buy.
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