Actresses, Chief Executives Among 50 Arrested in Nationwide College Scam

Started by Solar, March 12, 2019, 09:37:19 AM

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Just curious, was the FBI looking at old college entrance exams and saw irregularities, say Obozo or AOC?
Just asking, because they did state, they stumbled across the scam: "because it was uncovered by FBI agents there working an unrelated case."


Federal prosecutors in Boston on Tuesday charged 50 people, including the actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, in the largest college admissions cheating scam ever prosecuted in the United States.

Authorities say the operation, dubbed Varsity Blues, uncovered 33 parents described by US Attorney Andrew Lelling as a "catalog of wealth and privilege" who collectively paid $25 million to a college admissions counselor named William Singer, who pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate in an investigation into what Lelling called the "widening corruption of elite college admissions."

In exchange for the money, Singer allegedly bribed college officials, coaches and college entrance exam administrators, who then helped students secure admissions "not on their merits but through fraud," Lelling said.

Officials say 13 people were arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles -- including the actresses, who are in custody without incident.

In some cases, authorities say Singer arranged for a student to take the SAT individually with a proctor he had bribed in Texas or California. In other cases, Singer allegedly bribed coaches to establish fake credentials designating students as recruited athletes even when those students did not play the sport in question.

In one instance highlighted by federal prosecutors, it is alleged that the head women's soccer coach at Yale was paid $400,000 to accept a student even though the applicant did not play soccer. The parents of that student had allegedly paid Singer $1.2 million.

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

The nationwide scheme was prosecuted in Boston in part because it was uncovered by FBI agents there working an unrelated case. They say fake test scores were submitted to Boston College, Boston University and Northeastern University.

https://abc13.com/actresses-ceos-charged-in-alleged-college-admissions-scam/5186103/
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UGLY! It is good to see the FBI doing what they should be doing.
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Quote from: supsalemgr on March 12, 2019, 10:55:24 AM
UGLY! It is good to see the FBI doing what they should be doing.
We all know this has been going on for decades, but it wasn't until Trump came along, that it was finally exposed.
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WAIT....!

I'm a little confused. Hollywood keeps telling me "White Privilege" is alive and well in America. If that is the case why would the "White Privilege" elites of Hollywood have to bribe the educated system of higher learning to get their kids into school.....?  They should be able to walk right through the doors and say....look I'm "privileged" please open the doors for me.

I sure wish someone would explain how this "White Privilege" stuff works because I'm White and tired of setting my damn alarm clock to 4 am.

I know the article doesn't state "White Privilege". It states "catalog of wealth and privilege". I just wanted to bust a little Hollywood chops. I have a gut feeling that 90 plus percent are Hollywood privileged that are bribing the colleges to get their (I can't pass the test) kids into the so called elite schools of higher learning.

It's good to see the FBI doing the job it was created to do. I had the FBI as a whole at a F-. Today I give them an atta-boy and grade them with a big fat A+ for a job well done..... :thumbsup:
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So are the colleges themselves implicated in this scandal? Or are they victims of this too? Because Im certain those ivy league schools are corrupt as hell, and trump will find something sooner or later.
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This explains a lot.  This is another example of the Trump regime kicking another leg out from under the table holding up the Marxist house of cards.
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Quote from: Bronx on March 12, 2019, 12:30:41 PM
WAIT....!

I'm a little confused. Hollywood keeps telling me "White Privilege" is alive and well in America. If that is the case why would the "White Privilege" elites of Hollywood have to bribe the educated system of higher learning to get their kids into school.....?  They should be able to walk right through the doors and say....look I'm "privileged" please open the doors for me.

I sure wish someone would explain how this "White Privilege" stuff works because I'm White and tired of setting my damn alarm clock to 4 am.

I know the article doesn't state "White Privilege". It states "catalog of wealth and privilege". I just wanted to bust a little Hollywood chops. I have a gut feeling that 90 plus percent are Hollywood privileged that are bribing the colleges to get their (I can't pass the test) kids into the so called elite schools of higher learning.

It's good to see the FBI doing the job it was created to do. I had the FBI as a whole at a F-. Today I give them an atta-boy and grade them with a big fat A+ for a job well done..... :thumbsup:

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True Marxist fashion... it's white privilege when YOU do it, not me.
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Quote from: taxed on March 12, 2019, 02:11:07 PM
This explains a lot.  This is another example of the Trump regime kicking another leg out from under the table holding up the Marxist house of cards.
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With all these lawyers with cameras on the street i'm shocked we have so much crime in the world.

There is constitutional law and there is law and order. This challenge to law and order is always the start to loosing our constitutional rights.

Frauditors are a waste of life.

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Quote from: Solar on March 12, 2019, 02:22:13 PM
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I've been thinking for a while, how are they going to make a dent in academia?  I didn't even think about this...
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Quote from: taxed on March 12, 2019, 02:47:36 PM
I've been thinking for a while, how are they going to make a dent in academia?  I didn't even think about this...
That's how I saw it as well. First you take away the bred and butter, then once exposed, you expand your investigation.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lori-loughlin-released-on-dollar1-million-bail-in-college-admissions-scandal/ar-BBUILzG?li=BBnb7Kz

QuoteActress Lori Loughlin was released on $1-million bail Wednesday after being taken into custody as part of a sweeping college admissions corruption scandal.

That is crazy. She is not a threat nor a flight risk.
With all these lawyers with cameras on the street i'm shocked we have so much crime in the world.

There is constitutional law and there is law and order. This challenge to law and order is always the start to loosing our constitutional rights.

Frauditors are a waste of life.

Sick Of Silence

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/obama-family-tennis-coach-charged-in-college-admissions-scheme/ar-BBUJizW?li=BBnbcA1

QuoteA tennis instructor for former first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters, Malia and Sasha, was among dozens of people indicted by federal authorities in a college admissions scandal announced Tuesday.

Gordon Ernst, who previously served as a tennis coach at Georgetown University before becoming the women's tennis coach at the University of Rhode Island, is accused of conspiracy to commit racketeering while he was employed at the Washington, D.C., school.

Prosecutors allege Gordon accepted more than $2.7 million in bribes between 2012 and 2018 to put at least 12 students on the Georgetown tennis teams, including students who did not play the sport competitively, according to the indictment.

The bribes were paid to Ernst through the nonprofit Key Worldwide Foundation founded by William Rick Singer in 2012. Singer was the architect of the scam, which involved cheating on college admission tests and bribing college coaches.

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With all these lawyers with cameras on the street i'm shocked we have so much crime in the world.

There is constitutional law and there is law and order. This challenge to law and order is always the start to loosing our constitutional rights.

Frauditors are a waste of life.

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Quote from: Sick Of Silence on March 13, 2019, 09:39:22 PM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lori-loughlin-released-on-dollar1-million-bail-in-college-admissions-scandal/ar-BBUILzG?li=BBnb7Kz

That is crazy. She is not a threat nor a flight risk.

A million to her is 10 grand to joe shmoe...if we have to have a progressive tax system, damn straight I am fine with a progressive bail system