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  • Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud

    A bit old of a story now, but last week this was breaking news..


    Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud

    March 12, 2019

    Fifty people in six states were accused by the Justice Department on Tuesday of taking part in a major college admission scandal. They include Hollywood actresses, business leaders and elite college coaches.

    A teenage girl who did not play soccer magically became a star soccer recruit at Yale. Cost to her parents: $1.2 million. A high school boy eager to enroll at the University of Southern California was falsely deemed to have a learning disability so he could take his standardized test with a complicit proctor who would make sure he got the right score. Cost to his parents: at least $50,000. A student with no experience rowing won a spot on the U.S.C. crew team after a photograph of another person in a boat was submitted as evidence of her prowess. Her parents wired $200,000 into a special account.

    In a major college admissions scandal that laid bare the elaborate lengths some wealthy parents will go to get their children into competitive American universities, federal prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a brazen scheme to buy spots in the freshman classes at Yale, Stanford and other big-name schools.
    Thirty-three well-heeled parents were charged in the case, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, and prosecutors said there could be additional indictments to come.

    Also implicated were top college athletic coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit undeserving students to a wide variety of colleges, from the University of Texas at Austin to Wake Forest and Georgetown, by suggesting they were top athletes.
    The parents included the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; the actress Felicity Huffman; and William E. McGlashan Jr., a partner at the private equity firm TPG, officials said.

    Also implicated were top college athletic coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit undeserving students to a wide variety of colleges, from the University of Texas at Austin to Wake Forest and Georgetown, by suggesting they were top athletes. The parents included the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; the actress Felicity Huffman; and William E. McGlashan Jr., a partner at the private equity firm TPG, officials said.

    In many of the cases, prosecutors said, the students were not aware that their parents were doctoring their test scores and lying to get them into school. Federal prosecutors did not charge any students or universities with wrongdoing.

    At the center of the sweeping financial crime and fraud case was William Singer, the founder of a college preparatory business called the Edge College & Career Network, also known as The Key. The authorities said Mr. Singer used The Key and its nonprofit arm, Key Worldwide Foundation, which is based in Newport Beach, Calif., to help students cheat on their standardized tests, and to pay bribes to the coaches who could get them into college with fake athletic credentials.

    Mr. Singer used The Key as a front, allowing parents to funnel money into an account without having to pay any federal taxes.
    Parents paid Mr. Singer about $25 million from 2011 until February 2019 to bribe coaches and university administrators to designate their children as recruited athletes, which effectively ensured their admission, according to the indictment.

    *This is a very long article, you can read the rest here.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/u...g-scandal.html

    It is amazing what money can buy, eh. This story actually makes me sick. I feel sorry for the young adults who are learning bad morals of bribery, entitlement, and fraud from their parents. I feel mad about the fact that they are stealing spots from young adults who work hard to get an opportunity to enter these elite schools. This reminds me of the state of disrepair the US is in... and sinking lower everyday.




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      How Rick Singer started the college admissions cheating scandal? It began with a reality TV audition




      By JULIA SULEK | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group
      PUBLISHED: March 20, 2019 at 11:34 am | UPDATED: March 20, 2019 at 2:34 pm


      Rick Singervideo submitted to a network in 2010 and unearthed last week by TMZ Singer never became a TV star, but last week he became a feloninto the 204-page indictmenthttps://www.ocregister.com/2019/03/2...ssions-system/



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