I would go with that.
then why aren’t they pleading guilty?
I dont blame them either.
The racist strategy for admissions allows really stupid to advance on qualities having nothing to do with merit
Their problem was that they weren’t taxed enough, and therefore...they had all this money burning a hole in their pocket. So why not dispose of it via the college ‘gimmick’?
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, neither is it a defense in a court of law.
the common folks cannot do it , but isn’t this what people who can afford it do for their children? /s
But they did know it was wrong....shady
Heheh. Tell it to the judge.
Mossimo Giannulli seems to be worth 10s of millions and married Lori Loughlin from Full House.
Aren’t there legal ways he could have gotten the girls into school which look a lot like the illegal way? /s
The explanation at sentencing might have helped if they were apologetic and had plead guilty to the most generous offer...
Instead she was indignant and out on the court house steps signing autographs on their court date... so I say she gets what she gets, including all the other charges they were going to overlook added back in.
How can it be a crime if you didn’t know it was illegal?
When I donate to my local church they always ask for pictures of my kids playing sports they don’t engage in. So I believe them (LOL)
Playing to potential jurors. Hoping for an OJ verdict.
Remember, they think they are our superiors and that they must never be prosecuted for illegal activities. They will use every excuse in the book including ignorance. Expect a counter accusation soon or projecting blame onto someone else like the school for ‘tricking’ them or maybe a lawyer for providing bad council.
Leftists are horrible people.
JoMa
The Costanza Defense. Works on television.
A very wise man told one of the Bush kids about how celebrity men going around grabbing a handful of pu$$y any time they want. I wonder if the young Bush finally understands what the wise man was talking about?
They hired James Comey as their lawyer: no intent.
Oh, well, nevermind then...
I think they’ll crush the prosecution in a trial. You wash my hand, I wash yours is fairly common in everyday life. That’s why the typical target for honest services fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_services_fraud isn’t generally the people seeking favors, but the people receiving consideration for granting favors. University staff aren’t government employees. Even Supreme Court justices (including the late great Scalia) have said that this kind of conduct is vaguely unethical, but not exactly the stuff of a Federal case. Meanwhile, the far left never-Trump front group misnamed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington thinks honest services fraud prosecutions are a great thing.
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/citizens-for-responsibility-and-ethics-in-washington/
Nevertheless, prosecutors must still prove all the elements of mail fraud or wire fraud in a case regarding a scheme to defraud of honest services.[22]
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the statute, stating that the clause was so poorly defined that it could be the basis for prosecuting “a mayor for using the prestige of his office to get a table at a restaurant without a reservation.”[24]
In The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, investigative journalist Gary S. Chafetz argued that honest-services fraud is so vague as to be unconstitutional, and that prosecutors abused it as a tool to increase their conviction rates.[25] Bennett L. Gershmann, a professor at Pace University Law School, similarly has contended that the law “is not only subject to abuse...but has been abused.”[26] The case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman is often cited as an example of possible prosecutorial misconduct and abuse of the honest services law.[26]
Many interest groups oppose the usage of the honest services law, including the conservative United States Chamber of Commerce and Washington Legal Foundation, as well as the more liberal National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.[26] One notable proponent of the law is the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.[26][27][28] ]
Stupidity is no excuse.