College entrance exam fraud

when celebrities are involved it will always make headlines

https://theblast.com/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-charged-mail-fraud/

 

I was just about to make a thread.

Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged for bribing test proctors and college personnel to get their children into prestigious colleges. Huffman paid $15,000 to get a test proctor to change her daughter's SAT answers. Loughlin and her husband paid $500,000 to get their daughters into USC. Loughlin's husband was also charged. A total of 46 people, including 33 parents, were charged for cheating on exams and getting their kids into college with fake athletic credentials.


https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/03/12/lori-loughlin-felicity-huffman-college-admissions-scheme-yale-stanford-usc/

 

Karma- parents should never team up with their children to commit crimes.

 

In this case, it looks like Loughlin and her husband pressured one of their daughters to go to college. It was their plan and their money, so they got the charge.

 

Here’s the list of people charged.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-massimo-giannulli.html

 

This list includes where they work.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/12/a-slew-of-ceos-are-charged-in-alleged-college-entrance-cheating-scam.html

 

”The scheme involved cheating on SAT and ACT exams on behalf of students and bribing college administrators and athletic coaches to recruit students.” it looks to me that the institutions were also involved. Same as laundering money from third world dictators for their dictators’ children, friends, and, relatives.

 

Concur. Organizations are responsible for the actions of their employees if it is related to their employment.

 

I read a CNN article about this. It didn't mention what a conviction or guilty plea would likely entail? Probably a fine and probation?

 

Update

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alleged-mastermind-cheating-scandal-involving-lori-laughlin-wore-wire-expose-n982421

 

How are the 8 identified schools responding?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/8-colleges-were-named-in-the-massive-college-admissions-scandal-heres-how-theyre-responding/ss-BBUGQij?ocid=spartandhp

 

We had many discussions on access to education. I think one of the lessons from this situation is that access to money means access to education. Education should be available to those who want an education and can pursue education. Access to education should never be based on the wealth of parents. In addition, student loan penalized poor people - it gives in one hand but takes more from the other hand. It is a burden that rich children do not have to endure for an education.

 

As far as the institutions go at least one of the students, Loughlin's daughter, still attends USC. I would hope they are doing their own investigations.

 

Every college, except for University of San Diego, released a statement and said that they were starting an internal investigation. The last article Kizmet linked to has the statements. Some people no longer work for the schools, at least one has been put on administrative leave, and I think one might have been fired.

 

Thanks. I had already read the article but usually don't go through the click bait slides.

 

Aunt Becky's daughter vlogs about how she didn't want to go to college, and she's only at USC to party.

With all the complaints about Affirmative Action, it was found in the Harvard case that less-qualified athletes (most white), legacy admits (most white), and children of donors (most white) took far more seats away from more qualified Asian students, but the guys who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Asian students are white. Will they ever sue over wealthy people paying for their kids to get into college, or will they continue to go after the black and Latino students who make up a small percentage of the student bodies at elite schools?

Paying your kids' way into college is common and has been going on for decades...possibly over 100 years. People usually just do it legally by donating. Jared Kushner neither had the grades nor SAT scores to get into Harvard, but his father made a $2.5 million donation. Kushner graduated with honors during a year that an unusually high number of students graduated with honors. It's almost common knowledge that grade inflation is rampant at elite schools.

Trump asked for Obama's grades and scores, but he won't release his own. His high school has hidden his records so that employees can't find them. Cohen claims that he threatened Trump's high school, the College Board, and UPenn on his behalf. So, my guess is that Trump's father paid Trump's way into UPenn just like he paid a physician to diagnose him with bone spurs so that he wouldn't be drafted.

 

It sure was ungrateful. Her parents paid $500k to get her and her sister into that school.

 

Attorneys move fast. A student is suing because she believes her degree will be devalued by the scandal, but I want to see someone sue over discrimination.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/elite-schools-hit-lawsuit-massive-college-admissions-bribery/story?id=61679252