Posted on 10/22/2019 5:59:57 AM PDT by karpov
The college admissions scandal mom who falsely claimed her son was African-American and Hispanic to increase his chances of getting into a top college was sentenced to three weeks in prison on Wednesday.
Marjorie Klapper, 51, copped to paying $15,000 to fudge her son’s ACT exam score in May as part of the nationwide scandal.
She also agreed to portray him as a racial minority and a first-generation student on his applications — though both she and her husband graduated from college, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors had sought four months behind bars and a fine of $20,000 for Klapper, arguing that lying about her son’s race “increased the likelihood that her fraud would come at the expense of an actual minority candidate.”
“Ms. Klapper thereby not only corrupted the standardized testing system, but also specifically victimized the real minority applicants already fighting for admission to elite schools,” US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said in a statement.
In addition to jail time, she was ordered to pay a $9,500 fine and complete 250 hours of community service.
Klapper’s lawyers said crooked college prep adviser William “Rick” Singer passed off the boy as a racial minority without his mom’s knowledge.
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Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren in jail for it then?
That happens when an official racial spoils system is created.
Here’s a thought….make the universities stop their racist admission practices.
And this nonsense will no longer be a problem.
AS long as the kid identifies as a black hispanic I can’t see a problem.
Are they saying you have to prove you are a black hispanic now? What happened to the idea that you can identify as anything you want to be?
Right. Put Ewwwwww in jail
shouldn’t they make him prove it?? I could say i am biracial too even tho i am not.
More importantly, why isn’t Barack Hussein Obama in jail for it then. It’s obvious he lied about being a Kenyan immigrant on his college apps to get a break on the tuition, most likely. That’s why he never released them.
Ok for Senator Pocahontas, but not for the little people.
Yep. Can’t call a spade a shovel.
I disapprove of all racism, and it is only racism that allows a lie about the applicant’s race to affect college admissions decisions. It’s a shame that the far left fringe is explicitly rejecting the best ideas of Martin Luther King:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
- MLK
Because we have a “justice” system that does not treat people equally.
Our universities should go back to basing acceptance on grades alone. Require high school transcripts as documentation & then give the SAT’s or whatever additional testing is needed at the university so no one can fix them. We shouldn’t be wasting time & money on such nonsense.
Maybe she identifies that he identifies as African American......
RLTW
Why doesn’t he say he identifies as a black? A Whigger?
What about white privilege?
Prosecutors had sought four months behind bars and a fine of $20,000 for Klapper, arguing that lying about her son’s race “increased the likelihood that her fraud would come at the expense of an actual minority candidate.”
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Fraud at the expense of a white candidate is OK.
Every single anthropology textbook at that university unequivocably states that all humanity started in Africa. Thus everybody on the planet is an “African American”
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