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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.
At least this has the benefit of providing others a place to learn. I have no problem giving some asshat kid a free admission if he is allowing 500 other people to get an education on his dime at the same time.
The money isn't going to the schools. The parents are paying some middleman who is either paying SAT/ACT proctors to help cheat on exams, hire people to take the exams for them, or paying college coaches to designate the children as "recruits" who then get easier entry requirements or priority admission.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Singer helped parents take staged photographs of their children engaged in particular sports...sometimes Photoshopping the face of the child onto the picture of the athlete" and submitting it to desirable schools.
I can't believe parents were actually this stupid. If you're playing sports at the collegiate level, it's because you're actually fucking good at it. The world knows this.
Exactly how long did stupid celebrities think they were going to get away with pimping their fake elite athletes?
I wish this would have all blown up on a playing field somewhere. Would have made for great social media watching some spoiled little shit get called out and shown the door for going along with their parents idiotic ideas.
The coaches were in on it. The kids weren't actually getting recruited by the team, but the coach said the were to get them preferential admission.
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Yeah but, they're going to jail, and you're not.
They'll go to a country club prison, serve minimal time, and be out before the kid graduates.
Only the poor do Hard Time.
This won't change until the Rich also do Hard Time, and lots and lots of it.
Manafort much? I wish they'd given him 25, not 4. If I did that, I'd be in the clink for a long, long time, because I don't have his connections.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
What's the news thing here? I thought it was well known that connected people got their children in to "elite" educational institutions by donating a new library or something.
It's news when somebody does something about it.
It's news because they weren't doing that; they were literally cheating: forging fake documents, fake test scores, fake athletic achievements.
Can you find any Republicans in the group arrested today? Nope. All card-carrying Leftists.
Since the summary didn't list any names except the photogenic actresses, I'm not sure how you know if they were Republicans or Democrats. The actual article names names (scroll down to the bottom for the list), and they're mostly athletic coaches and rich businessmen. I don't know their politics, but in my experience, athletic coaches and rich businessmen both tend toward the right.
This is exactly wrong. Reductions in per capita spending on higher education are responsible for increased tuition.
https://www.educationnext.org/higher-ed-lower-spending-as-states-cut-back-where-has-money-gone/
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.
According to TFA, most of these parents paid the consultant $250k to $450k.
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Read the actual article. The people accepting the bribes got maybe 350 K to 450K. The people arranging the bribes got a lot more.
Exempli gratia:
"In another example, Lelling said former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith took $400,000 to designate a potential student as a recruit for the team — boosting the student's admission prospects — despite knowing that the student didn't play the sport competitively.Once the student was accepted to Yale, her relatives paid Singer approximately $1.2 million, including a $900,000 to one of KWF's charitable accounts, according to court documents."
2 out of 50 were "Hollywood elites".
Give me $450K and I'll start my own business.
Pfft. Spoken like a poor. The whole point of going to these places is so you can make well connected friends who give you cushy fake consulting jobs or finance your political campaign. Its to ensure a steady stream of other peoples money into their pockets into the future.
Start a business, good grief businesses may fail and running a real one takes actual work.
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