Posted on 07/29/2019 1:23:59 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
Several Democratic donors were among those charged Tuesday in a federal crackdown on a nationwide fraudulent college admissions conspiracy.
"Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits," according to the Department of Justice. Documents unsealed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts show fraud extending to Yale, Georgetown, and other American universities.
Parents paid William Rick Singer, owner of The Edge College & Career Network, LLC, to ensure their children's admissions to university, according to court documents. Singer would then arrange for special proctors to fly from Texas and California for the SAT and ACT tests, correcting students' answers, according to the court filing. He's also accused of creating fake athletic profiles for students, even though some did not play sports at all. Singer then bribed coaches and administrators of NCAA Division I programs like Yale, Stanford, and the University of Southern California to recruit the students, all but guaranteeing their admission, according to the DOJ.
Those charged represent a "catalog of wealth and privilege," U.S. attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters Tuesday. "The real victims in this case are the hardworking students" who were denied admissions because the children of wealthy parents "simply bought their way in," according to Lelling.
The 33 parents paid a total of $25 million to Singer's company as part of the scheme, ABC News reported. Also implicated were top college coaches for their alleged role in accepting millions of dollars to help admit students.
Most of the press reaction Tuesday centered on Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, two prominent Hollywood stars charged in the sting.
Huffman, when not acting, is a generous donor to Democratic candidates. Huffman has donated thousands of dollars since 2016 to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), according to the Federal Election Commission's site. Prior to that, she donated frequently to President Barack Obama's election efforts.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/democratic-donors-charged-in-college-admissions-scam/
No worries! NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN will be all over this! ((Crickets))
March 12
They should have just said their children "identify as minority", and applied for applied for the Adversity Score.
“Several Democratic donors were among those charged Tuesday...”
Something tells me that this, too, would have been buried in a Hillary ‘Justice’ Department.
“only one gave consistently to Republican candidates. Mossimo G. Giannulli...He supported Sen. Marco Rubio in 2016, and Romney and John Boehner before that.”
I’m still waiting to find out which REPUBLICANS he gave money to. I only see the names of 3 losers above.
Minorities rank high on the “diversity score” and that’s how they get in, ie. Affirmative Action.
Huffman, when not acting, is a generous donor to Democratic candidates. Huffman has donated thousands of dollars since 2016 to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), according to the Federal Election Commission's site. Prior to that, she donated frequently to President Barack Obama's election efforts."
Huffman has donated thousands since 2016 to Democrat Kamala Harris, according to the FEC's web site....
and also donated frequently to Barack Obama's election efforts.
God knows what extracurricular activities the gullible donors are involved in.
If they're stupid enough to donate to Harris and Obama, chances are they've been targeted by some snakey conmen.
Were those 33 just the parents who signed the check? You can bet their spouses and kids were in on it, too.
Liking that.
Why am I looking at an article from 4 months ago?
Still no names of politicos, whose kids just magically matriculate to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc. See? They and their spoiled brats really are smarter than we are! /S/S/S/...
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