Calm down, psycho. Jeeze...
I think the problem for me is that I am having a hard time distinguishing between the public and private side of the issue. If instead of USC, it was a private, for profit college involved, would it still be illegal?
I get that it is immoral to lie. If I ran a business and my employees were taking bribes, I would fire them....but just from a high level view of it...
Let’s you offer a service and you have certain rules and regulation in place so that your business runs smoothly and efficiently and provides the best service. For example, let’s say you run a gym. Let’s say potential members must pass a physical exam and demonstrate a certain level of fitness. Let’s say you have rules that members must put their towels away and they can’t wear street shoes in the locker room and they are not allowed to leave their underwear hanging up to dry, etc...
If someone were to say, “I am rich and I don’t want to follow your rules. I can’t pass your fitness test because I am too out of shape. Here is an extra $10,000 so that I don’t have to.”
Would that be illegal?
Is the real difference here that USC is a public institution? It seems like everyone from the administration down was involved in this scheme so who was actually defrauded by this? I get that 2 students may have been denied admission in place of these 2 girls and they very well could have a good civil suit.
I explained to you what mail fraud is and you ignored it or lack the ability to understand simple English prose.
The rules for taking the SAT and the ACT are set by a private company; the ones who write and distribute those exams. It has always been illegal to pay someone else to take them for the student/give the test taker the answers/correct the wrong answers. When they are caught, they and the student have always been prosecuted. And the mail fraud comes in, with this, because the tests and scores are sent through the U.S. Mail!
Your examples are patently ridiculous, as well as stupid!
You'd only fore a high level employee who took a bribe, but not a low level one? WHY? Stealing and bribery are stealing and/or bribery no matter who does it!
If you take a bribe/bend the rules for an obese person, who wants to join your gym and that person gets injured, due to the weight issue, that person will sue you! But, as I said, that example is ruefully ignorant and stupid!
What difference does it make if the college or university is a private one or a public institution? The rules were still broken, the bribery went on, the mail fraud, which is a Federal offense is still a Federal offense, and many private colleges and universities accept Federal grants and other types of money from the government!
Stanford, Yale, and Harvard are private institutions.
USC is a public one.
All of these schools are now embroiled in this scandal.
That you are having so many problems understanding this and the info supplied to you, speaks very loudly about YOU!