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.
You are not alone. I have never heard of Huffman but I have heard of Loughlin mentioned in the article. Wasnt she on Full House?
That Loughlin slut hates on Trump with her twitter account. I can’t wait to go on and she what she has to say.
I’ll watch Hallmark on Sunday mornings for classic Columbo.
Familiar face, but she wasn't much of a celebrity until she got a role on 'Desperate Housewives'.
Well, I’ve liked Loughlin since her Edge of Night days.
Our entire university education system is a scam.
Next the FBI needs to take a look at the F1 OPT’s.
Lots of schools will "get" a kid in.
Or, if your Duke, get the right shoe contract and you can get top level recruits. No questions asked!
At North Carolina, the "athletes" don't even have to go to class!
Yes. The might not have enough evidence on Macy.
Part of me has to believe that this is just the FBI’s way of saying “SQUIRREL!”
#3 How much was the Chelsea Clintons bribe?
Wiki: She received an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and later earned master’s degrees from University College, Oxford and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and a Doctor of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford
I've always thought that there was a whole bunch of people admitted to the top universities for reasons other than academics or sports.....look at Harvard....the regular joes and janes are backlisted so the connected people or "minority" people can take their place...
when I took my nursing boards decades ago in Syracuse NY I was fingerprinted......
Was there some mention months ago that federal dollars were being steered toward Stanford by Ted Lieu as a bribe to admit his two sons?
Hillsdale College is a foreign concept university to the left right here in Michigan.
ome on folks.....no one really thought the likes of chelsea toon got into stanford and graduated in 3 yrs while never really being a student did they?
I’ve always thought that there was a whole bunch of people admitted to the top universities for reasons other than academics or sports.....look at Harvard....the regular joes and janes are backlisted so the connected people or “minority” people can take their place...
Well if the Democrats want to make college “free” this stuff will be a problem.
Neither one of these women is guilty
Evuh!
Why didn’t they just check the Cherokee box ?
Brings to mind the old David Letterman gag on Brooke Shields’ chemistry term paper at Princeton.
“A Chemical Reaction in Three Phases: Rinse, Lather, Repeat.”
Never attended but I lived in Hillsdale, Michigan for awhile. Beautiful place!
Fun?
Lori Laughlin has a reputation as squeaky clean, and is on a Hallmark show
Why people like her arrested and NOT Hillary Clinton?????
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