Posted on 03/12/2019 7:33:57 PM PDT by CaptainK
I didn’t hear about any of these underperforming kids getting into good schools like Hillsdale.
wonder how many got in with this kind of cheating without getting caught
RINO supporter.
“All of southerm California is desert climate.”
No it isn’t, despite what one of the locals around here keeps insisting.
I guess “Cherokee ancestry” wasn’t working like it used to.
He got 1 million bail. But where is Lori? Still in Canada?
Menlo Park, Atherton, Palo Alto, = all very expensive areas of Northern CA.
Considering the ONLY one they actually named in this article was primarily a ‘pubbie donor, you expect anything to come out in the msm?
Aside from any possible financial crimes like tax evasion or money laundering for illegal purposes, how is any of this a crime? Don't these top schools admit large numbers of unqualified students with boring regularity?
Who exactly is the VICTIM of all the crimes alleged here?
If making misrepresentations of yourself is a crime in and of itself (and not doing it for financial gain, but PAYING people to help you do it), then wouldn't dating websites be criminal rackets? And wouldn't every politician be in jail right now?
Leftists (i.e. Democrats) are thieves and steal anyway they can get away with it. This is why they love the concept of government. They use it to steal from you and justify that theft by government as somehow justified.
JoMa
The universities were victims. How about the legitimate kids whose spots in the schools were taken because Of these crooks.
Did the students who were "fraudulently" admitted refuse to pay their tuition and other fees? Did the schools suffer any harm by having crappy athletes on sports teams that nobody cares about anyway? Did these students with fake credentials underperform their fellow students who were "legitimately" admitted? If the answer to all of these is "NO," then I'm not sure how the schools could credibly present themselves as victims of fraud.
How about the legitimate kids whose spots in the schools were taken because Of these crooks.
That's UNFAIR, but it's not FRAUD ... because none of those kids were entitled to be admitted to the schools.
Does it mean that their kids were either too stupid or lazy or a combination of both to get in on their own merits?
Nice that the parents let everyone know just how lacking these kids were/are.
Clintons?
What sport did the jockette Chelsea play?
What, exactly, is the federal crime here? It seems like a civil case (the colleges were defrauded or other deserving students were defrauded) and the harmed parties should be suing. But the federal government?
I was born in southern California in 1948 and lived there and Arizona and New Mexico for most of my adult life. Try living in Phoenix in the summer and tell me it is the same climate as Los Angeles. It is not.
Cactus may grow in LA but there are tons of other flora from southern California that would die and shrivel up if transplanted to the Sonoran desert in the Phoenix area. Just one example, Queen Anne palms flourish in southern California but struggle to survive in the desert heat of Phoenix.
Of course Death Valley is a desert but it's not what people normally refer to as southern California. Los Angeles and San Diego are both considered Mediterranean climes.
Los Angeles Is Not a Desert. Stop Calling It One
Wikipedia--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Is Classified As A Mediterranean Climate
My thoughts, exactly.
The Chinese are better at cheating. They been taking tests for centuries to get ahead. Plus they have plenty of honest students and/or parents anyway.
Well, if they wanted the “party” scene, they should have come to Alabama. Tuscaloosa, a drinking town with a football problem..
Roll Tide.
The difference this time is the bribes went to a third party instead of directly to the university. Bribes disguised as donations to sham charities? The Clintons can tell you all about that.
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