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Actresses and Business Leaders Charged in College Admissions Bribery Scandal
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, paying bribes to get their children into elite American universities.
Thirty-three parents were charged in the case. Also implicated were top college coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit students to Wake Forest, Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California and other schools, regardless of their academic or sports ability, officials said. Along with the Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, those charged included prominent business leaders, a fashion designer and a top lawyer, officials said.
The case unveiled Tuesday was stunning in its breadth and audacity. It was the Justice Department's largest ever college admissions prosecution, a sprawling investigation that involved 200 agents nationwide and resulted in charges against 50 people in six states. The charges also underscored how college admissions have become so cutthroat and competitive that some have sought to break the rules. The authorities say the parents of some of the nation's wealthiest and most privileged students sought to buy spots for their children at top universities, not only cheating the system, but potentially cheating other hard-working students out of a chance at a college education.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:50PM (2 children)
Folks, this is what happens when I have an Attorney General. This is what it's like. The word is getting out that we have to stop college cheating. Very proud of my Justice Department. They're moving very strongly, getting very tough with these coastal elites.
People don't know this, I went to the Wharton School of Business. I’m like a really smart person. Look, having nuclear, my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at M.I.T. Who was known as the Albert Einstein of M.I.T. Good genes, very good genes, O.K. Very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart. You know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a Liberal, if, like, O.K., if I ran as a Liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world. It’s true. But when you're a conservative Republican they try, oh, do they do a number! That’s why I always start off, went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune -- you know, I have to give my, like, credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged. But you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me. It would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are. Nuclear is powerful. My uncle explained that to me many, many years ago. The power, and that was 35 years ago -- he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right. Who would have thought? But when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners -- now it used to be three, now it’s four -- but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger. Fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years. But the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us. MAGA!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:04PM (1 child)
"Little disadvantaged" seems to be an understatement.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday March 13 2019, @03:18PM
So true, my Uncle John was a very humble guy. A lot like me. I have more humility than you would think, believe me. We’re all the same. I mean, we’re all going to the same place, probably one of two places, you know. But we’re all the same. And I do have, actually, much more humility than a lot of people would think. But he didn't toot his horn a lot. Not a lot. But he's very famous at M.I.T., all the M.I.T. people know about him. And what he achieved there. And now I'm a famous guy, I'm putting the word out about him. I'll tell you, someday when folks talk about Einstein they're going to say, "oh, Albert Einstein was incredibly smart, he was the Dr. John Trump of Princeton!"