William Singer leaves federal court Tuesday in Boston after being charged in a college admissions fraud scheme. By Gabrielle Bluestone March 13 at 10:07 AM Gabrielle Bluestone was executive producer of the documentary “Fyre.”
The desperation of the Varsity Blues scam is astounding, especially given that it involves enormously wealthy and influential people, who in a prior generation might have taken more legal, but no less forceful, actions to get their children into college. Why would so many respected people allegedly risk so much for something that ultimately matters so little?
"We’re not talking about donating a building so that a school’s more likely to take your son or daughter,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters. Like the Fyre Festival disaster, the Varsity Blues scam is shocking because of an apparent disconnect: In both cases, ambitious people went to extraordinary lengths to create the appearance of success and, along the way, lost track of the substance.
Singer delivered in a way that McFarland couldn’t: He actually got these privileged kids into school. But like McFarland, Singer found out that you can fake it only so far, whether that’s when your festival attendees show up and find Federal Emergency Management Agency tents and cheese sandwiches instead of a glam festival experience, or when the feds accuse your parents of not trusting you not to disgrace them.
Yet parents n students buying test banks n solutions is no problem. Criminals. Singer et all set up a criminal enterprise n people bought the product. The Mafia should take notes.
So if the kids of L. Loughlin and F. Huffman were too intellectually limited to get into the elite Universities to begin with, what was the parents game plan to have them make it through to graduation? “Just cheat your way through, sweetie! Studying is for the little people!”
all bets are off across the board
Scandal Under there is a proliferation of scandals America has not ever seen before
And of course you give Hollywood elites already implicated a pass....
'In the golden age of grifters'. Modern society is as naive and gullible as ever.
LauraJa04236997 Opinion: This is another example of Hollywood showing the world what they're really all about.
Thinking this is just the tip of the iceberg. This is one guy with just a handful of connections. Any school worth their salt is going to take a long hard look at their process. Loads of liability out there.
Ivy League SUCKS, nothing but losers.
Show me your SAT!
Always knew that people with influence used their power & money to get their kids in good schools. The surprise was that ivy league access can be purchased from a discrete third-party service.
Did we really think that celebrities were above or any different than any other greedy, self serving, self appointed, spoiled, self entitled ruling class assholes? I live in L.A. and can tell you they aren't ffs. We have a homeless population of between 40,000 and 60,000!
Do you think you will win or loose the lawsuit for 250 million? Can your company survive? Fake news Washington post will be exposed soon. Here’s looking at you bozo....
RWMann More evidence that society has replaced the inheritance and birthrights of the royalty and nobility of prior ages, with those today who can afford to buy otherwise impossible privileges for their offspring. A new ruling class.
Yeah, that’s not grifting
iwant the diplome back
All I can think about are the students with astronomical student loans who paid their own way and those other students wo were passed over for elitists who got into college through cheating. Very sad time and proof of how the 'rich' have no conscience.
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