Posted on 05/01/2019 10:29:45 AM PDT by C19fan
The first two parents entered guilty pleas in the Operation Varsity Blues investigation on Wednesday.
Bruce Isackson, 62, and Davina Isackson, 55, of Hillsborough, Calif., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Bruce also pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to defraud the IRS.
As part of their deals, prosecutors will recommend that Davina serve between 27 and 33 months in prison while her husband will likely spend somewhere between 37 and 46 months.
The charges are remarkably similar to the ones facing Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, the Isacksons spent $600,000 to have William Rick Singer facilitate their daughters' admission into the University of Southern California by creating bogus athletic profiles for the girls.
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All of them should have just pooled their money and started their own university.
So when do the University folks start going to jail?
The big question...are the kids gonna visit mom & dad in prison?
4 years? They should have stored thousands of classified government documents on an unsecured laptop. Then they’d be off scot free.
This story is untrue. The 27 months isn’t a minimum, it’s the low end of what the prosecutor is recommending.
These parents should not fret... they can take tons of classes themselves while inside prison.
This story is untrue. The 27 months isn’t a minimum, it’s the low end of what the prosecutor is recommending.
I was about to post the same thing.
Compare this “justice” to the bus driver that raped a 14yo girl and got probation with no jail time.
This country has a twisted sense of justice.
But the vile felon Charles Kushner handed $3 mil to Harvard to get Jared in, and that’s no problem. What’s the difference?
Nobody's ever heard of that bus driver.
I hope Lori and husband get off. I am appalled by the attention this is getting while page and girlfriend walk free.
The fact that these kids presumably graduate puts the lie to the ‘upper tier’ school thing (maybe leaving out the top science schools). They take your money for prestige but this shows the prestige to be a complete fraud.
So when do the University folks start going to jail?
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Good question.
‘Hint’ for the officials/inquisitors:
ATTEMPTED bribery is if I offer you something and you tell me to pound salt, AND if illegal, turning into LEO.
Bribery is if I offer you something and you take it.
If these parents are guilty of bribery, there HAS to be at least one person who they enriched AND...’hit’ him/her hard enough, they will turn the one into a goodly number and they can ALL spend time in ‘the Yard’ plotting how to stay away from Bubba!!!.
Ah you see, you have touched the truth. The crime is cutting the Universities out of the bribery game. Endow a chair, help fund campus expansion, and support the trustees, and your kids are in. It’s only cheating when you don’t play by their rules.
No different than Thornton Melon donating the funds for a business school building so he could enroll in Grand Lakes University.
You can bet the discovery demands by those pleading not guilty are going to be comprehensive as it relates to ALL admissions that were based on something other than merit. There will be thousands of admits at these that were shady based on contributions, legacies, family and friends connections, political connections. These cases won't go to trial for many years. The defendants will also look into the admissions of the prosecutors and judges; and their children and children of their friends. The defendants are all entitled to this information. In the end, those pleading not guilty will have their charges dropped or let off with a fine. Those who have pleaded guilty should not be going to prison. It serves no real purpose. Significant fines are enough.
Call me a negative nancy, but can’t help but think they will get the Jussie Smollett treatment. One law for them....
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