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 have to think that if they had given USC a $500,000 endowment, USC would have accepted their two kids.
Isn’t that how college works, rich people give big donations and it helps get your kids into the colleges?
Seriously, who would think that a USC education was worth $500,000?
test cheating scam , and sports participation fraud. Tax deductions of payment to William Singer as a charity.
This will be tough on the children who are outted.
I am thinking of the most obvious....Barack Obama!
Nobody even remembers the guy at Harvard.
I have to think that if they had given USC a $500,000 endowment, USC would have accepted their two kids.
Isn’t that how college works, rich people give big donations and it helps get your kids into the colleges?
Seriously, who would think that a USC education was worth $500,000?
Who pays attention?
Universities are pretty anonymous places, and instructors are used to looking the other way for anything connected to athletics.
test cheating scam , and sports participation fraud. Tax deductions of payment to William Singer as a charity.
This will be tough on the children who are outted.
bookmark
Bet her and Macy were $hitting bricks when the cops showed up.
Well it’s nice, let me be nice for the many times I was rightfully nasty....and say how delighted it is to see the FBI ACTUALLY CATCHING REAL CRIMINALS!!!
They are not the Atlanta bomber, the Anthrax mailer, Donald Trump, Manafort.....all those other awful criminals.
THE FBI GOT REAL CRIMINALS!!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Felicity Jones played RBG not Felicity Huffman.
From his wikipedia:
Macy and actress Felicity Huffman dated on-and-off for 15 years and married on September 6, 1997. They have two daughters, Sophia Grace (born December 1, 2000) and Georgia Grace (born March 14, 2002).
Chelsea had the ladt name Clinton. Bill had a brillant mind if he is her birth father.
it is difficult when you are not an A List celeb. /s
Ong you are right. So sorry.
Don’t tell me those kids didn’t know. Half of them probably didn’t take an SAT at all.
Yeah, my heart’s bleeding too.
Meanwhile I got a beautiful granddaughter, 15, currently enrolled in JRROTC (to be a marine) and she holds a job after school and is busy studying for the SAT.
In a preliminary one she scored 984!
Being fair people. We need to force people to be fair.
And some crab turd Hollywood brat has Mommy do all the work.
Felicity Huffman was in one of my formerly favorite shows...Desperate Housewives.
She was very good in it.
so she can act. Now I know she’s a big cheat.
I am not impressed.
I thought you just had to be rich and pretty to get into USC?
It’s alright, nobody saw the movie, so we have to take their word for it regarding who was in it.
So WHO outright admits that their kid is TOO stupid to succeed on his/her own?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.