Tip of the iceberg
Meanwhile, what MAGA really cares about is getting rid of Affirmative Action.
They have a lot of help with that from some other "minorities" too.
This is only the beginning of the rabbit hole I bet.
FBI Alleges Wealthy Parents Bribed Colleges
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They have a lot of help with that from some other "minorities" too.
This is only the beginning of the rabbit hole I bet.
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More than 750 families benefited from college cheating scheme, ringleader says
College cheating ringleader says he helped more than 750 families with admissions scheme
March 13, 2019, 8:46 AM EDT
By Tom Winter and Minyvonne Burke
The ringleader behind a $25 million college admission scam that implicated dozens of people, including Hollywood actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, said he has worked with more than 750 families.
William Rick Singer, who pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Boston federal court to racketeering, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges, said in a phone conversation recorded by the FBI that he helps "the wealthiest families in the U.S. get their kids into school."
Singer said he facilitated 761 "side doors" to admission.
"They want guarantees, they want this thing done. They don't want to me messing around with this thing," he said, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. "And so they want in at certain schools."
According to the investigators, parents paid Singer millions to boost their kids' chances of getting into schools such as Yale University, Stanford University and Georgetown University by paying people to take tests for their children, bribing test administrators to allow that to happen, and bribing college coaches to identify the applicants as athletes.
Singer, 58, faces a maximum sentence of 65 years if convicted.
"I am absolutely responsible for it," he told U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel. "I put everything in place. I put all the people in place and made the payments directly."
Some of the parents spent between $200,000 to $6.5 million to ensure their children would get into the schools. Singer said the price depended on what school the parents wanted their kids to get into, according to the court documents unsealed Tuesday.
Loughlin and Huffman were among 50 people charged in the alleged scam Tuesday. Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to pay $500,000 to help their two daughters' chances of gaining admission to the University of Southern California, court papers say.
Loughlin allegedly said that she would arrange for her daughter to be photographed so it appeared she was the crew coxswain on the L.A. Marine club’s rowing team, according to a criminal complaint.
Huffman and her husband, actor William H. Macy, paid $15,000 to get their daughter unlimited time for her SAT test, prosecutors say.
Huffman also allegedly discussed the idea of having a ringer take the test for their other daughter but ultimately decided against it after she expressed concern about having to explain the difference in scores to her daughter’s tutor, according to the complaint.
"I just didn't know if it'd be odd for [the tutor] if we go, "Oh, she did this in — in March 9, but she did so much better in May," Huffman allegedly said on the call. "I don't know if that’d be like — if [the tutor] would be like, 'Wow.'"
In other instances, Singer is accused of paying people to create fake athletic profiles for his clients’ sons and daughters and then bribing college coaches to give those students slots meant for incoming athletes.
Tom Winter is a producer and reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit based in New York, covering crime, courts, terrorism, and financial fraud on the East Coast.
Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
I remember talking to an English professor, for a private university that was 40k a semester. And i was thinking damn these kids must be smart for them to make this kind of investment in school. He like nah, a lot of them come from money bags, are unmotivated, and have lackluster writing skills. It's a struggle just to get them to do the basics and have them take school seriously.Private universities are a scam that exist to keep the wealthy in power by pushing them through BS programs where they really aren't qualified for and thrown into a post-ed work environment where their positions and place in the system are already charted for them.Yale is literally just a recruitment pipeline for the surveillance apparatus. It's alumni list a long line of landed, wealthy oligarchs, war criminals, and silicon valley nutjobs.
FBI called it Operation Varsity Blues, they got jokes. 
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FBI called it Operation Varsity Blues, they got jokes.
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I’m more surprised it’s illegal to buy admission at private universities.
post article please.
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Imagine dropping 500k for your child to get into a school.
Imagine having that much money to burn. That's enough money to start a small business and be plain awful your first 2 years and still keep running.
Imagine having that much money to burn. That's enough money to start a small business and be plain awful your first 2 years and still keep running.
They did not just buy admission, they rigged the test scores (either by having someone else take the SAT or by bribing the officials to get the test scores changed afterwards).
Also they completly invented the athletic history from zero in application documents, even photoshopping a picture to get a student head on a soccer player body or lying about tennis achievements that can be easily verified.