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1 posted on 03/15/2019 6:49:05 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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I’d like to see the names of the students who bought their way into college released also. I’ll bet a lot of them are in the current House of Representatives.


2 posted on 03/15/2019 6:54:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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The rich and the famous want to decide how we live our lives, while doing whatever they please.

To anyone who isn’t a Democrat, this is no surprise.

To anyone who is a Democrat can’t comprehend what’s going on, and will continue with their voting habits. Cognitive dissonance.


3 posted on 03/15/2019 6:55:35 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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Breeding in a nest of scum.


4 posted on 03/15/2019 6:56:02 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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Gillibrand:........Who?..................


7 posted on 03/15/2019 6:57:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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Is it too soon to be scolding these people for their excessive displays of “liberal privilege”?!


8 posted on 03/15/2019 6:58:42 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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How would you feel if you found out it cost $250,000 for your parents to grease the skids of college acceptance for you, but it only cost $50,000 for some other dolt. Either you’re really dumb, or your parents are, or maybe both!


11 posted on 03/15/2019 7:02:36 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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Personal morality doesn’t matter, it’s how much money you give to Democrats that determines whether you are going to heaven.


13 posted on 03/15/2019 7:04:45 AM PDT by babble-on
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Help me out here.

Frankly I’d be ashamed, at the least NOT proud, that my kid was attending the University of Southern California.

What the hell are they famous for that stupid people are paying thousands of bucks to get their loser kids in that place? What the hell does that college teach for which it is famed?

Study of the LGBTABCDEF? “My Name is Jazz” taught by Jazz, who is a girl no matter what his penis says? “12 more years till the world ends by heat”?

My prediction is that THIS incident, as it continues to inflate, will change things in this culture big time.

I read somewhere that the Desperate Housewives cheating slut was in a march defaming Trump.

Dear Lord, please make these people get a clue, lose any power they have and may their kids be denied their cheating riches.

Also, and finally for your boredom, does anybody think these kids like the ones on that yacht really do any work to get that college degree? You don’t think they hire someone to take their tests, write their essays, do their homework?

Lord, keep this growing till the culture regains a clue about equality and fairness.


14 posted on 03/15/2019 7:05:52 AM PDT by Fishtalk
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Two screw ups for Gillibrand in a week. She’s toast.


16 posted on 03/15/2019 7:08:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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USC is hardly an elite school. It’s hard to believe that parents are actually bribing their offspring in. How dummm they must be.


17 posted on 03/15/2019 7:08:16 AM PDT by bwest
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Birds of a feather stick together.


23 posted on 03/15/2019 7:26:50 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Bill Cosby’s Mugshot was everywhere. Chris Brown’s everywhere, R Kelly, everywhere. Lori Loughlin (Full house star), they only seem to show glamour shots. Hmmmm


25 posted on 03/15/2019 7:42:53 AM PDT by wiseprince
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It cost donors $2,800 to be a co-host of the event.

Or $50,000 if you choose “side-door” admission!

29 posted on 03/15/2019 7:54:53 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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Democratic Donors Charged in College Admissions Scam!

BY: Mikhael Smits Follow @mikhaelsmits
March 12, 2019 3:13 pm

Several Democratic donors were among those charged Tuesday in a federal crackdown on a nationwide fraudulent college admissions conspiracy.

“Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits,” according to the Department of Justice. Documents unsealed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts show fraud extending to Yale, Georgetown, and other American universities.

Parents paid William Rick Singer, owner of The Edge College & Career Network, LLC, to ensure their children’s admissions to university, according to court documents. Singer would then arrange for special proctors to fly from Texas and California for the SAT and ACT tests, correcting students’ answers, according to the court filing. He’s also accused of creating fake athletic profiles for students, even though some did not play sports at all. Singer then bribed coaches and administrators of NCAA Division I programs like Yale, Stanford, and the University of Southern California to recruit the students, all but guaranteeing their admission, according to the DOJ.

Those charged represent a “catalog of wealth and privilege,” U.S. attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters Tuesday. “The real victims in this case are the hardworking students” who were denied admissions because the children of wealthy parents “simply bought their way in,” according to Lelling.

The 33 parents paid a total of $25 million to Singer’s company as part of the scheme, ABC News reported. Also implicated were top college coaches for their alleged role in accepting millions of dollars to help admit students.

Most of the press reaction Tuesday centered on Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, two prominent Hollywood stars charged in the sting.

Huffman, when not acting, is a generous donor to Democratic candidates. Huffman has donated thousands of dollars since 2016 to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), according to the Federal Election Commission’s site. Prior to that, she donated frequently to President Barack Obama’s election efforts.

She is far from the only Democratic donor on the list, some of whom have also donated to Republican candidates at times.

Gordon Caplan is co-chairman of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, a major law firm. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut and New York City. Caplan paid $125,000 to have his daughter’s ACT exam corrected by the proctor, according to the DOJ. He is charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in the District of Connecticut.

During a conversation recorded by investigators, Caplan asked how the scheme would work. A cooperating witness explained over the phone:

I just explained it to you. You get extended time, you gotta get the extended time first. Then you’re going to fly to L.A. And you’re going to be going on a fake recruiting visit. You’ll visit some schools, while you’re out here in L.A. And then on a Saturday, which is the national test day if it’s ACT or SAT, she’s going to sit down and take the test. I will have a proctor in the room, that’s why, when you have 100% extended time, you have– you get to take it at a– you don’t take it with everybody else, you get to take it over multiple days. And you get to take it at a– you can take it at your school or another school. Okay? And then this kid, ’cause she’s taking online classes, you have to go somewhere anyway.9 So you come to my school, take the test on a Saturday. She’ll be in the room for six, six and a half hours taking this test. My proctor would then answer her questions, and by the end of the day, she would leave, and my proctor would make sure she would gets a score that would be equivalent to the number that we need to get.

[…]

That’s how simple it is. She doesn’t know. Nobody knows what happens. It happened, she feels great about herself. She got a test a score, and now you’re actually capable for help getting into a school. Because the test score’s no longer an issue. Does that make sense?

Caplan gave the maximum allowable donation to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. He donated an additional $25,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund and $22,300 to the Democratic National Committee in 2016, months before Clinton lost to Donald Trump. Caplan began giving to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) in 2005.

During the 2018 midterms, Caplan shelled out thousands of dollars to support Democratic candidates in Connecticut, Indiana, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada. His lavish political spending used to be bipartisan. In 2011 and 2012, he gave tens of thousands of dollars to both Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns.

Robert Flaxman, the owner of Crown Realty and Development, was also charged. The Beverly Hills, California resident paid for assistance with both his son and daughter’s admissions, according to the DOJ. For a fee of $250,000, the fraudulent college consultant had ACT tests falsified and arranged for a varsity coach at the University of San Diego to claim Flaxman’s son as an athlete, according to the charges.

During the 2016 election cycle, Flaxman donated to Clinton’s campaign and gave thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party in states including Colorado, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. He also donated to several Republicans, albeit on a far less frequent basis. Several years earlier, in the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, he also spent upwards of $125,000 supporting Republicans.

Agustin Huneeus is a winemaker in California. He paid $50,000 to administer a false SAT test to his daughter, according to investigators. He is also accused of conspiring to bribe USC athletic staff to accept his daughter as a water polo recruit. During the 2016 cycle, Huneeus gave $33,400 to Clinton’s super PAC. He’s given over $150,000 the DNC and DCCC, $60,000 the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund, $10,000 to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) and thousands more to various other California candidates.

Jane Buckingham is the founder and president of Trendera, a boutique marketing firm. She agreed to pay $50,000 for her son to take a false ACT test in Houston, according to investigators. At the test site, a co-conspirator faked her son’s handwriting and took the test for him, investigators say. Buckingham’s son received a 35 out of a maximum 36 points. She later expressed interest in arranging the same for her younger daughter, according to the charges.

Buckingham is also a generous donor to the Democratic Party. She gave $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund and $30,800 to the DNC in 2012. She gave more than $22,000 to support Gillibrand’s races.

Of the 50 people charged in the college scandal, the Washington Free Beacon found only one gave consistently to Republican candidates. Mossimo G. Giannulli, founder of the clothing company Mossimo, Inc., is married to actress Lori Loughlin. He and his wife gave over $500,000 to secure admission to USC for his two daughters via the crew team. Neither daughter rows. He supported Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) in 2016, and Romney and John Boehner before that. He has also donated to Democrats.

The scandal comes at a pivotal moment for admissions policies nationwide. A Massachusetts district federal court is currently determining whether Harvard University’s admissions policy of affirmative action unfairly discriminates on account of race. Though the legality of athletic recruitment is not at issue in the latter case, both threaten to pull back the curtain on the secretive process of admissions at America’s most selective institutions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNNRl7EPXYNyDkxacbEQa3cOfZ9-xtXlZNTkXqGgXUw/edit


30 posted on 03/15/2019 8:21:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (After JussieÂ’s fake hate crime, hate crime fakers arenÂ’t taken seriously for even 1 minute now!)
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I shocked I tell you - shocked... /s


31 posted on 03/15/2019 8:26:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are attacking Ivanka & Jared ostensibly on security clearances - reality is antisemitism)
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I don't get it. Why would you want to get your kid into a college when he or she is incapable of doing the work? They'd flunk out and you've wasted your money. The whole thing makes no sense.
38 posted on 03/15/2019 9:48:39 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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