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Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal (npr.org)
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, paying bribes to get their children into elite American universities. From a report: Federal officials have charged dozens of well-heeled parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, in what the Justice Department says was a multimillion-dollar scheme to cheat college admissions standards. The parents allegedly paid a consultant who then fabricated academic and athletic credentials and arranged bribes to help get their children into prestigious universities. "We're talking about deception and fraud -- fake test scores, fake credentials, fake photographs, bribed college officials," said Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Lelling said 33 parents "paid enormous sums" to ensure their children got into schools such as Stanford and Yale, sending money to entities controlled by a man named William Rick Singer in return for falsifying records and obtaining false scores on important tests such as the SAT and ACT. Describing how Singer worked to present his clients' children as elite athletes, Lelling said, "In many instances, Singer helped parents take staged photographs of their children engaged in particular sports. Other times, Singer and his associates used stock photos that they pulled off the Internet -- sometimes Photoshopping the face of the child onto the picture of the athlete" and submitting it to desirable schools.
Lelling said 33 parents "paid enormous sums" to ensure their children got into schools such as Stanford and Yale, sending money to entities controlled by a man named William Rick Singer in return for falsifying records and obtaining false scores on important tests such as the SAT and ACT. Describing how Singer worked to present his clients' children as elite athletes, Lelling said, "In many instances, Singer helped parents take staged photographs of their children engaged in particular sports. Other times, Singer and his associates used stock photos that they pulled off the Internet -- sometimes Photoshopping the face of the child onto the picture of the athlete" and submitting it to desirable schools.
What ever happened to getting your kid into college the good old fashioned way? Donating enough money to get a building named after you and guaranteed admission to any descendants.
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I was about to pay several million dollars to pass my son off as the world's greatest collegiate hockey prospect (except he can't skate and is in his 40s) when I saw this Slashdot article. Now I've done something even better: I signed him up at the University Of American Samoa for a law degree! Go Land Crabs!
Thanks Slashdot!
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That's nothing. My government backed loans let me stay seven years in a triplex set of suites, with both Ferrari and Mercedes included two car garage. As a gay, Mexican, muslim self identified woman refugee, I also got ten thousand dollars a month to spend on legal aid to bring my seventy four cousins in fur chain migration. My six Medicare fertility treatment babies guarantee I can stay forever. Which is great because my degree in Underwater Basket Weaving as protest against White Male Racism doesn't pay anything, so I need to keep my unemployment and welfare checks coming in. ...
Five minutes later...
Top "news" story in Das Sturmfrunten.
And yes, the vast majority of today's wealthy are in fact leftist.
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!! Oh man, that was a good one.
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That is why you'll always be broke.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I tried to bribe a collage once but got thrown out of the Hobby Lobby by security.
they were simply Ayn Rand followers
Oh yeah, Hollywood is full of Objectivists. Totally.
Putz.
-jcr
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The drunk fool George W Bush attended both Yale and Harvard, proving your point.
Pfff. Those were my safety schools. I guess his dad didn't have enough juice to get him into Wharton.