The accused, who also include chief executives, financiers, a winemaker and fashion designer, allegedly cheated in admissions tests or arranged for bribes to get their children into prestigious schools including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.
Actress Lori Loughlin, center, poses with daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli, left, and Isabella Rose Giannulli.Huffman, 56, and Loughlin, the 54-year-old star of"Full House," were among 33 parents accused of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in joining the scheme. A magistrate judge ordered the"Desperate Housewives" star to restrict her travel to the continental United StatesThe scheme aimed to take advantage of the two years of stress parents across the United States often endure as they put high school-age children through the standardized SAT and ACT tests needed to gain entry into heavily competitive colleges and universities.
"These parents are a catalogue of wealth and privilege. They include, for example, CEOs of private and public companies, successful securities and real estate investors, two well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer and the co-chairman of a global law firm," he said. In Huffman's case, she"donated" $15,000 to Singer's fake charity Key Worldwide Foundation in 2017 for someone to set up a special testing site and date for her oldest daughter and then to fix the answers on the daughter's test.Fake athletes
"But once he gets here, he just goes, he doesn't go to athletic orientation, he goes to the regular orientation like all my other kids just did ... and everything's fine."
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It just shows that getting to universities is only for the elite nowadays and those with money. It should be about the students who have worked their backsides off to achieve something in their lives.
This happens all over when the rich want their offspring to hobnob with the truly talented young people of our world!
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