They cracked it because they needed something to take Lisa Pages transcripts of her testimony off the news.
I guess I’m just having trouble getting why everyone is so outraged over this when there are just as many other scummy schemes to get into college going on. Why is this so bad but it’s OK that the Kennedys buy some buildings at Harvard so they all get automatic admissions? Why is it OK to admit an under qualified applicant because of their skin color but this is an outrage? Why do we have special admissions standards for illiterate football players?
There are dozens of ways that wealthy or “special” people get their children into elite universities but this is the one that causes outrage? It seems that the parents were guilty of being rich but not rich enough to get the extra special treatment. If they’d been rich enough to buy USC a building their kids would have gotten in no problem, and they’d have been given a parade.