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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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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Unless this ends in more than just a couple of scapegoats in prison orange, it will mean very little.

I see the Hollywood figures getting fines and suspended sentences. Cost of doing business for a Hollywood libtard.

I found the righteous indignation on the part of Princess Shovels Bull to be both funny and nauseating at the same time.


21 posted on 03/12/2019 8:39:44 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Don’t let these SOBs plead guilty and walk away without testifying, naming names etc...


22 posted on 03/12/2019 9:18:00 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Veruca Salt


23 posted on 03/12/2019 9:22:23 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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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

24 posted on 03/12/2019 9:23:53 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Larry Lucido

Snore
This is not news
Who cares ?


25 posted on 03/12/2019 9:47:59 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: D Rider

“At USC, Doheny library was built to get his kid admitted.”

Possibly true, like 20%. Edward L. Doheny build a library in honor of his son at USC. He built a hospital at UCLA in honor of his wife. And Estelle Doheny build a library in honor of her husband at St. John’s. The Doheny’s were the wealthiest in American for a few years and their bright son could go to any college in 1925.

Top universities have always had millionaires from Asia fly in and put $100,000 cash on the dean’s desk for a diploma. I have seen that in San Francisco. It’s crazy.

B.A. degrees from top American colleges are not worth the crime, like stealing a Ford Fiesta. The excellence is in American graduate schools. MIT is the best school.


26 posted on 03/12/2019 10:29:44 PM PDT by Falconspeed
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To: zipper

And this is one of the results of Affirmative Action...white elites have to bribe their way in.

Unless you force your daughter to become a left handed lesbian lacrosse player.


27 posted on 03/12/2019 10:41:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Republicans - As Usless As Democrats)
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To: RightGeek

LOL


28 posted on 03/12/2019 10:52:41 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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To: neverevergiveup

The ringleader said he did this over 800 times!!


29 posted on 03/12/2019 11:15:57 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: zipper

AOC’s dad is an architect.


30 posted on 03/12/2019 11:27:22 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: zipper

The dummies simply could have had their kids go the Elizabeth Warren route and declare themselves Apaches.


31 posted on 03/12/2019 11:28:42 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: deport

And these are, no doubt, the same handwringing libs who will lecture us on white privilege, racism and a plethora of other wrongdoings.


32 posted on 03/13/2019 3:56:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: Gamecock

A college education has become indoctrination. Once accepted, as long as they pay their tuition, they eventually graduate. Furthermore, the elite colleges are living on their reputation and have become the ultimate “good old boys club” controlled by elite liberals. Wake up America!


33 posted on 03/13/2019 4:12:39 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Someone with some time on their hands needs to start looking at FEC reports to see who all these people gave money to the last few election cycles.

Methinks that would be VERY telling!

34 posted on 03/13/2019 5:01:46 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Been done already. I think by the Washington Free Beacon. The article is posted on FR.

It’s one Republican donor and a bunch of Dem donors.

I notice this ABC story is playing up the wealth and sports angle.


35 posted on 03/13/2019 5:23:04 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

Thanks for letting me know! I’ll go find it.


36 posted on 03/13/2019 5:28:21 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

I just grabbed it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3734205/posts


37 posted on 03/13/2019 5:30:14 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: weston

This is the one time they may not be withholding their identity because they are black,illegal or muslim.
But because they are flaming rich white leftist.


38 posted on 03/13/2019 5:34:52 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: deport

I stand corrected.


39 posted on 03/13/2019 5:36:21 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: RightGeek

Or, Kenyan.


40 posted on 03/13/2019 5:39:31 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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