Felicity Huffman & Lori Loughlin Snared By FBI In Ivy League Bribe Plan

Deadline ^ | March 12, 2019 | Dominic Patten

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(UPDATED with information from law enforcement press conference) Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin knowingly broke the law trying to get their kids into top tier colleges, according to the FBI and the U.S Attorney’s office for the district of Massachusetts.

The Desperate Housewives and Fuller House actors were named among a group of 33 parents who paid millions in bribes to coaches at Ivy League schools like Georgetown University, Stanford University, UCLA, Yale and USC so their children could gain admission as recruited athletes – even if they weren’t actually athletes.

The just unsealed March 6 indictment notes that the schools themselves were not part of the scam by the William Singer-run Key Worldwide Foundation. The illegal activity by the non-profit also included hiring other individuals to write admission exams for the potential students. Singer and a number of school coaches are scheduled to plead guilty today in the elite bust.

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I pulled my own scam to get into Yale lo these many (48!) years ago. I had blown my Harvard interview — sat there stiff as a board and couldn’t find my groove — so for my Yale interview the following week I got smart. I asked if the interviewer could come to my house (this was in California.) I told my mother when the guy came to let him in, tell him I was in the living room and then go upstairs. I turned off all the lights downstairs and lit a big fire in the fireplace. Spread out a mess of papers on the table in front the fire. Had Beethoven’s 7th Symphony blasting from the speakers high on the walls flanking the fire. Sat with my back to the door scribbling furiously on the papers, by firelight. When I heard the guy come in I held up my left hand, like, hang on a second, and kept scribbling, with great intensity — milked it as long as I could — and finally finished writing, turned and looked at the guy as if I was still lost in my thoughts, like, remind me while you’re here? All with the Beethoven blasting. I saw the look in the guy’s eyes and knew right then that I was going to New Haven. Seems like a pretty innocent scam by comparison...