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    Default Full list of people arrested over college bribery scandal

    Wonder how many of these fine people are democrats and how many are republicunts

    https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/0...g-charges.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by lisasanders1964 View Post
    Wonder how many of these fine people are democrats and how many are republicunts[/url]
    Find out and let the forum know, if you aren't too busy speculating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lisasanders1964 View Post
    Wonder how many of these fine people are democrats and how many are republicunts

    https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/0...g-charges.html

    Text will what to know how many are BLACK
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    Text will what to know how many are BLACK
    Does their race make any difference?

    I don't think it does.

    Have another drink.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Does their race make any difference?

    I don't think it does.

    Have another drink.

    Yea ... don't you know Text?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    Yea ...
    You're partly correct, for once. Some cheaters pretended to be minorities in order to get Affirmative Action preference.


    Wealthy parents used to just donate money toward a new building on campus or sponsoring endowments and fellowships. There is also the long-established benefit available by many schools of allowing admissions based solely on legacy – a student is admitted because of having a parent who is an alumnus.

    This is different.

    One little tidbit from the investigation known as Operation Varsity Blues that hasn’t received much attention is the fact that William “Rick” Singer gamed affirmative action.

    The con artist faked the racial and ethnic identification of students in the pay-for-play college admissions scandal.

    Singer was following the example of Elizabeth “Fauxchahontas” Warren when submitting college applications for the children of the wealthy.

    Singer led admissions officials to believe that 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,” investigators told the judge Tuesday, according to a transcript.

    Not only did the college applications contain phony Photoshopped photographs of the students participating in sports and activities but the applications also used racial and ethnic quota considerations to move the students forward in the process.

    Singer didn’t claim Asian ethnicity on the applications as that is part of another Ivy League scandal in itself.

    The Operation Varsity Blues scandal shows how easily affirmative action quotas can be manipulated.

    Qualified students were tossed aside and lost their chance for admission. This part of the story needs more discussion.


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    Nice try ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    Nice try ...
    I didn't think you'd want to discuss people pretending to be Black.

    A little too close to home, I'd say.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    I didn't think you'd want to discuss people pretending to be Black.

    A little too close to home, I'd say.



    Have another drink.

    Let me guess ... another one of your National Emergencies ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    Let me guess ... another one of your National Emergencies ...
    Nothing to say about the abuse of affirmative action by the cheaters?

    Have another drink.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Nothing to say about the abuse of affirmative action by the cheaters?

    Have another drink.

    NOPE ... I can live for 50 plus years and not once have it Impact me ... how about you?

    Next!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    NOPE ... I can live for 50 plus years and not once have it Impact me ...
    Yet you felt compelled to post about the scandal numerous times, didn't you? Seems contradictory.

    I'll understand if you can't explain, of course.

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    According to wikipedia, Singer had two main ways to get these rich kids into prestigious colleges;-

    Methods of fraudulent admission
    Singer primarily used two fraudulent techniques to help clients' children gain admission to elite universities. The first involved cheating on the SAT or ACT college admission tests.[8] Singer worked with psychologists to complete the detailed paperwork required to certify clients' children as having a learning disability, giving them access to accommodations, such as extra time, while taking the tests. Singer said he could get a falsified disability report from a psychologist for $4,000 to $5,000,[22] and that the report could be re-used to fraudulently obtain similar benefits at the schools. Once the paperwork was complete, Singer told clients to invent false travel plans to get their children's tests moved to a test center under his control in West Hollywood or Houston. In some cases, the student was involved directly in the fraud; in others, the fraud was kept secret from the student and corrupt proctors altered tests after the fact.[23] In some cases, other people posed as the students to take the tests. Mark Riddell, a Harvard alumnus and college admission exam preparation director at IMG Academy, was allegedly one of the stand-in test takers; he agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with investigators.[24][25] Prosecutors claim he was paid $10,000 per test, and he faces two criminal charges for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering.[26]

    According to recorded phone calls included in court filings, Singer claimed that the practice of fraudulently obtaining accommodations such as extra testing time, intended for those with bona fide learning disabilities, was widespread outside of his particular scheme:

    Yeah, everywhere around the country. What happened is, all the wealthy families that figured out that if I get my kid tested and they get extended time, they can do better on the test. So most of these kids don’t even have issues, but they’re getting time. The playing field is not fair.[27]

    For example, Jane Buckingham was arrested on March 12, 2019, for allegedly submitting false paperwork saying her son had a learning disability and paying $50,000 to Key Worldwide Foundation for a proctor to take the ACT on her son's behalf, scoring a 35 out of 36. The goal was entrance to the University of Southern California.[28] Portions of recorded conversations between Buckingham and a cooperating witness were included in the FBI's affidavit.[29][30][31]

    The second method used by Singer was bribing college athletics staff and coaches. At target institutions, coaches and athletic staff can submit a certain number of recruit names to the admissions office, which may view the applications more favorably in light of that status. Singer used his Key Worldwide Foundation as a money-laundering operation to pay coaches a bribe for labeling applicants as athletic recruits; he fabricated profiles highlighting each applicant's purported athletic prowess. In one such incident, Michael Center, the men's tennis coach at Texas, accepted approximately $100,000 in exchange for designating an applicant as a recruit for the Texas Longhorns tennis team, thus facilitating their admittance into the university.[2] A similar fraud occurred at Yale,[13] where the then-head coach of the women's soccer team, Rudolph "Rudy" Meredith, allegedly accepted a $400,000 bribe to falsely identify an applicant as a recruit.[32][33] Senior associate athletic director Donna Heinel and water polo coach Jovan Vavic, both of USC, allegedly received $1.3 million and $250,000, respectively, for similar frauds.[34] They were indicted alongside former USC women's soccer coaches Ali Khosroshahin and Laura Janke.[35] Coaches at two other Pac-12 programs, UCLA men's soccer coach Jorge Salcedo and Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer, also allegedly accepted bribes.[36] Vandemoer admitted to accepting $270,000 to classify two applicants as prospective sailors.[37] At Wake Forest, head volleyball coach William "Bill" Ferguson was placed on administrative leave following charges of racketeering.[38] Former Georgetown tennis coach Gordon "Gordie" Ernst is alleged to have facilitated as many as 12 students through fraudulent means, while accepting bribes of up to $950,000.[39] An unnamed athletics coach at the University of San Diego allegedly accepted bribes and two San Diego families were accused of paying $875,000 as part of the scheme.[40]

    Bill McGlashan, a private equity investor, allegedly discussed using Photoshop to create a fake profile for his son as a football kicker to help him get into USC.[41][42] Similarly, Marci Palatella, wife of former San Francisco 49ers player Lou Palatella, allegedly worked with Singer to pass her son off as a long snapper recruit for USC.[42][43] In one of the most notable cases, actress Lori Loughlin, famous for her role on the American sitcom Full House, and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters accepted into USC as members of the rowing team, despite neither girl having participated in the sport.[22]

    Singer was charged with racketeering conspiracy for his role as the organizer of the scheme. Money was allegedly funneled through a 501(c)(3) organization formed by Singer, the Key Worldwide Foundation, in the form of purported charitable donations.[8] Singer pleaded guilty on March 12, 2019, in the U.S. District Court in Boston to four felony counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice.[44] He faces a maximum of 65 years in prison and a fine of $1.25 million.[45]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Find out and let the forum know, if you aren't too busy speculating.
    Not sure if she lives in Malice Springs or Cuntberra?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Not sure if she lives in Malice Springs or Cuntberra?
    She admitted being a whore earlier. Said she'd charge more than Stormy did, though.

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