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Live Updates: Ringleader pleads guilty in $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam
ABC ^ | 03/12/2019 | Aaron Katersky, Bill Hutchinson, Mike Levine

Posted on 03/12/2019 6:56:37 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and a slew of chief executives are among 50 wealthy people charged in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice, federal officials said Tuesday.


Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; college; elite; georgetown; stanford; varsityblues; yale
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I didn't hear about this during Obama/Bush years. I doubt Hillary cronies would have done much. US Atty Lelling is a Trump nominee, member of Federalist Society.
1 posted on 03/12/2019 6:56:37 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Holy crap - how embarrassing is it to be the kid your parents had to bribe the school $6.5MM to let you in?


2 posted on 03/12/2019 6:59:44 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

I think that I work with graduates of this scholarship program.


3 posted on 03/12/2019 7:05:46 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Yaelle
I always wondered what the shoe repair ringleader did after absconding with Jerry's tennis shoes after 47 years.


4 posted on 03/12/2019 7:05:53 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Still Thinking

Ummm. Stanford and USC are private. At USC, Doheny library was built to get his kid admitted. USC has always been very open about it. Now if someone was pocketing money on the side... well that is a different story.


5 posted on 03/12/2019 7:06:02 PM PDT by D Rider
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To: Still Thinking

My parents only paid a quarter a week for the neighbor kids to be my friend!


6 posted on 03/12/2019 7:06:19 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I don’t get it. Were AOC’s parents rich?


7 posted on 03/12/2019 7:11:45 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist)
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To: Still Thinking

Yep..Lori Loughlin’s daughter who according to her youtube channel “Doesnt like school or studying” sounds like an AOC type of dumb ass..how must she feel that her mother knows what a moron she is, had to pay a half a mil to get her into USC..but I think Lori and Felicity, they didnt do this FOR their kids they did it for themselves, to improve their image


8 posted on 03/12/2019 7:12:32 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Holy crap - how embarrassing is it to be the kid your parents had to bribe the school $6.5MM to let you in?

Just a little more available money, buy a building, hint the college is in your will, and the kid is a shoo-in legacy.

It must suck to be at that level, but not the next one, or to only have that much money but not the fame/cachet to push on through. Does anyone think that Malia had to worry about admission to Harvard? Or that Chelsea had to worry about admission to Oxford graduate school for a guaranteed accepted Ph.D. program and thesis? Or that a 2nd or 3rd generation Rockefeller or Kennedy ever got rejected from a college they wished to attend?

9 posted on 03/12/2019 7:12:42 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Larry Lucido

Izzat Dick Van Dyke in the picture?


10 posted on 03/12/2019 7:14:01 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I guess this means parents will have to help their kids cut the line ahead of the other, more deserving kids the old-fashioned way: by Affirmative Action.


11 posted on 03/12/2019 7:16:34 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist)
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To: D Rider

Speaking of Doheny ...

In the 1920s, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal and accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.

The funny thing is, Doheny was acquitted of offering a bribe Fall was convicted of accepting. Think about that. During the trial, Fall said what Doheny offered was not “One hundred thousand dollars,” but “One hundred cows and horses.” LOL


12 posted on 03/12/2019 7:19:18 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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I don’t know, but someone is going to need Matlock to sort this out. Or Jackie Chiles.


13 posted on 03/12/2019 7:19:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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LOL


14 posted on 03/12/2019 7:26:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law,
finance, fashion, the food and beverage industry and other fields, were charged. ....

Authorities said coaches in such sports as soccer, sailing, tennis, water polo
and volleyball took payoffs to put students on lists of recruited athletes,
regardless of their ability or experience. ....


15 posted on 03/12/2019 7:36:43 PM PDT by deport
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Why don’t we have the names of these prominent people? Why did they only release the two names?


16 posted on 03/12/2019 7:42:51 PM PDT by weston (As far s I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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the names have been posted on Free Republic and the court documents are public with the indictments and names. Don’t expect the media to do it, almost all of them are Democrat donors.


17 posted on 03/12/2019 7:45:16 PM PDT by centurion316
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Federal authorities ultimately had three cooperating witnesses to help them build their case.

"Today's arrests should be a warning to others: You can't pay to play, you can't
cheat to get ahead because you will get caught," Bonavolonta said.


Others charged in the case are:
John Vandemoer, 41, the head sailing coach at Stanford University
Gordon Ernst, 52, former head coach of men and women's tennis at Georgetown University
Ali Khoroshahin, 49, the former head coach of women's soccer at USC
Laura Janke, 36, former assistant coach of women's soccer at USC
Jorge Salcedo, 46, the former head coach of men's soccer at UCLA
Michael Center, 54, the had coach of men's tennis at the University of Texas at Austin
Martin Fox, 62, president of a private tennis academy in Houston
Gamal Abdelaziz, 62, of Las Vegas
Diane Blake, 55, and Todd Blake, 53, of San Francisco
Jane Buckingham, 50, of Beverly Hills
I-Hin "Joey" Chen, 64, of Newport Beach
Amy Colburn, 59, and Gregory Colburn, 61, of Palo Alto, California
Robert Flaxman, 62, of Laguna Beach, California
Elizabeth Henriquez, 56, and Manuel Henriquez, 55, of Atherton, California
Douglas Hodges, 61, of Laguna Beach, California
Agustin Huneeus Jr., 53, of San Francisco
Bruce Isackson, 61, and Davina Isackson, 55, of Hillsborough, California
Michelle Janavs, 48, of Newport Coast, California
Elisabeth Kimmel, 54, of Las Vegas
Marjorie Klapper, 50, of Menlow Park, California
Toby MacFarlane; 56; of Del Mar, California
Devin Sloane, 53, of Los Angeles
John Wilson, 59, of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts
Homayoun Zadeh, 57, of Calabasas, California
Marci Palatella, 63, of Healdburg, California
Peter Jan Sartorio, 53, of Menlo Park, California
Stephen Semprevivo, 53, of Los Angeles.


18 posted on 03/12/2019 7:57:28 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

This is just the tip of the iceberg.


19 posted on 03/12/2019 8:19:57 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: deport

The ruling class controls not only what they teach in college.


20 posted on 03/12/2019 8:36:39 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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