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College scam ‘mastermind’ faked ethnicity of students: docs
NY Post ^ | March 15, 2019 | Laura Italiano

Posted on 03/16/2019 8:50:29 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

He wouldn’t just fake your kids’ water polo skills and pump up their SAT scores — college admissions scammer William “Rick” Singer could also fake your kid’s race.

As part of his larger scheme to get low-performing rich kids into top colleges, Singer would sometimes falsify students’ ethnicities to give them an affirmative action advantage, according to a little-reported detail from his guilty plea before a federal judge in Boston.

Singer’s plea mostly focused on how he admittedly collected more than $25 million from well-heeled parents to help their kids cheat on SAT tests or win bogus “athletic” recruitments.

Singer would also sometimes lard up kids’ resumes and entrance essays with fake references to awards and extracurricular activities, Assistant US Attorney Eric S. Rosen told Judge Rya ­Zobel.

But in a scheme reminiscent of the 1986 comedy flick “Soul Man,” Singer led admissions officials to believe that some students were worthy of affirmative action priority — even when they were not.

Singer was guilty of “lying about students’ ethnicities and other biographical information in an attempt to take advantage of perceived benefits from affirmative action and other programs,” Rosen told the judge Tuesday, according to a transcript.

The prosecutor gave no details of how many ethnicities were fudged or for which schools.

“Elizabeth Warren was just ahead of her time, apparently,” tweeted National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty, referring to the Massachusetts senator outed as identifying herself as Native American.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 03/16/2019 8:50:29 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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Now this I can get behind


2 posted on 03/16/2019 8:52:25 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: COUNTrecount
perceived benefits from affirmative action and other programs

"Perceived". Right.

3 posted on 03/16/2019 8:52:59 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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4 posted on 03/16/2019 8:53:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: COUNTrecount

Who is surprised by this? Race is the most obvious way to game the system.


5 posted on 03/16/2019 8:54:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: COUNTrecount
LOL, I was wondering if princess running beaver would appear and you done good. 🙀😹😹😹
6 posted on 03/16/2019 8:56:01 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: COUNTrecount

SOME reporter, if any are left needs to ask Liz why she hijacked a tribe who owned
African slaves, Fought for the Confederacy and ran a group called Knights of the Golden Circle...basically the KKK.

Facts
https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com
“Jesus Wept” An American Story of Struggle, Sacrifice, Faith & Hope


7 posted on 03/16/2019 8:56:09 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pow Wow Chow!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 03/16/2019 8:56:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: COUNTrecount

This should get the race hucksters incensed. He was stealing seats that had already been stolen by the race crowd for their “disadvantaged.” This just proves the olds saw “there’s no honor among thieves.”


9 posted on 03/16/2019 8:57:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: COUNTrecount

Diversity just keeps piling up the benefits. It really is our strength.


10 posted on 03/16/2019 9:00:04 AM PDT by cdcdawg (A couple more election cycles and they won't even need vote fraud)
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To: COUNTrecount

Singer and Pocahontas must know each other well.


11 posted on 03/16/2019 9:00:37 AM PDT by dowcaet
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“Singer would sometimes falsify students’ ethnicities to give them an affirmative action advantage”

So, in other words, being white is a disadvantage.

Btw, the term white privilege is being used because being called a racist doesn’t work anymore.

Beto “the fake Hispanic” O’Rourke knows his privilege is not being white since he fakes a heritage not his own much like that of Lizzie Warren’s so-called native American DNA, but that of extreme wealth and association with the one percent.


12 posted on 03/16/2019 9:01:20 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: COUNTrecount

“If I dood it, I get everything I want and be Senator. But everyone hate me in turdy-years... I DOOD IT!!!”


13 posted on 03/16/2019 9:01:59 AM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: COUNTrecount

That was my very first thought. If Elizabeth Warren could convince the faculty of Harvard that she is a blond, blue-eyed Indian, how difficult can this be?


14 posted on 03/16/2019 9:05:13 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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15 posted on 03/16/2019 9:14:45 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If the race hucksters had any brains they’d already be incensed ... because nobody has paid a bribe of even $1 to get a kid into a historically black college like Howard or Grambling. LOL.


16 posted on 03/16/2019 9:15:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: COUNTrecount

“College scam ‘mastermind’ faked ethnicity of students: docs”

So they used the Elizabeth Warren strategy...

Hellywood, lecture us some more about privileged...


17 posted on 03/16/2019 9:15:53 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: PGR88
Hollywood made a movie about it decades ago.
18 posted on 03/16/2019 9:20:09 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: COUNTrecount

Not one of those colleges would oppose the idea that one can choose one’s sex/ Think you’re a man? Good enough for then.
So they certainly shouldn’t object to picking one’s race and ethnicity despite appearance and genes.


19 posted on 03/16/2019 9:22:35 AM PDT by all the best (You)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; bitt; vette6387

Thank you for the light of truth!! May all the duplicitous politicians be exposed immediately.


20 posted on 03/16/2019 9:27:36 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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