[david.garrett84]

http://fortune.com/2019/03/12/loughlin-h...dmissions/

Quote:

Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin Are Among 40 Celebs, CEOs Arrested in a College Admissions Cheating Scandal

A who’s who of famous names, from actresses to CEOs [READ: DEMOCRATIC DONORS], have been arrested as part of a national college admissions cheating scam, according to court records unsealed in Boston Tuesday.

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among the more than 40 people arrested for paying bribes to get their children into elite schools, including Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, and Yale.

The scam said prosecutors, arranged for children to be recruited as athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities. Academic officials, including the former women’s soccer coach at Yale University, are also facing charges.

“Beginning in or about 2011, and continuing through the present, the defendants—principally individuals whose high-school age children were applying to college—conspired with others to use bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate their children’s admission to colleges and universities in the District of Massachusetts and elsewhere, including Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California, and the University of Southern California-Los Angeles,” an affidavit supporting the indictment said.

Also named in the indictment are William E. McGlashan Jr., founder and managing partner of TPG Growth, a Silicon Valley investment fund, wine baron Agustin Huneeus, Robert Zangrillo, CEO of venture firm Dragon Global, Gordon Caplan, co-chairman of the notable law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, Elisabeth Kimmel, owner of Midwest Television and a board member at Ballast Point Brewing and former Pimco CEO Doug Hodge.

The bribes reportedly went as high as $6 million. The children, generally, did not realize their admission was due to a bribe.

Huffman, who starred on TV’s Desperate Housewives and her spouse, actor William H. Macy, allegedly “made a purported charitable contribution of $15,000…to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. Huffman later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so.”

Loughlin, who most recently starred on the Netflix’s comedy Fuller House, and her husband are accused of agreeing to pay $500,000 in bribe to have their daughters recruited to the USC crew team, even though they had not previously participated in crew sports.

“The charges brought forth today are troubling and should be a concern for all of higher education,” the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) said in a statement Tuesday. “We are looking into these allegations to determine the extent to which NCAA rules may have been violated.”

Apparently some of these people tried to write off the bribes for tax deductions. Oh Lord, thank you.

LOL. I remember Felicity Huffman huffing and puffing about how she was joining the Women’s March.

It’s so great she’s marching for the little people while buying off college officials to jump ahead of those same little people!

Quote:

”I'm going to the Million Women March in DC with my two daughters, and my sister and her daughter and their two grandchildren,” Ms Huffman said.

"I feel that the election was somewhat of a feminist issue. I feel like the best of us was bested by not the best of them."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...28616.html

[IveBeenFramed]

Lori Laughlin = wall survivor.

[Aquiles_Baesta_Parada]

(03-12-2019 03:50 PM)IveBeenFramed Wrote:  

Lori Laughlin = wall survivor.

Her hot-dumb-ass-daughter on the right apparently needed help to get into USC even thou she is a legacy (father)
EDIT: I think the father didn't finish at USC.. Cant have legacy privileges

[Going strong]

But, but... I thought these brave "Liberal" celebrities were all for "inclusion" and "tearing down barriers". And now I learn with utmost surprise that they're sending their (pampered) children to private, walled-off, elitist colleges. Sad!

[Sp5]

You think because some of these celebs were against Trump that this scandal is going to work in Trump's favor?

Au contraire. It's a lot bigger than a couple of virtue-signalling Hollywood women. This is huge.

It rips the mask off of "meritocracy," and all of the striving middle/upper-middle class are going to be outraged. There were hedge fund guys, big-firm lawyers and various other rich bastards in this.

People are going to look at this and think: these fuckers are like the Trumps and Kushners.

This should be in Politics, because it's going to play out in egalitarian politics.

[Canopus]

(03-12-2019 03:59 PM)Aquiles_Baesta_Parada Wrote:  

Her hot-dumb-ass-daughter on the right apparently needed help to get into USC even thou she is a legacy (father)

This brainless Insta thot couldn't even fill out the actual USC application, so they paid some dude to do it for her:



Of course, it sounds like she was going to USC for uhh...the usual Insta thot reasons.

[lex the impaler]

Who are the CEO's in the saga?

[Heuristics]

[url=https://twitter.com/brandonwrites/status/1105518688348848128<br />][/url]

[CynicalContrarian]

Lesser known American celebrities. American college scam / financing. Yet the news made it all the way to Australian main stream (fake) news...

[MrLemon]

(03-12-2019 06:40 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  

You think because some of these celebs were against Trump that this scandal is going to work in Trump's favor?

Au contraire. It's a lot bigger than a couple of virtue-signalling Hollywood women. This is huge.

It rips the mask off of "meritocracy," and all of the striving middle/upper-middle class are going to be outraged. There were hedge fund guys, big-firm lawyers and various other rich bastards in this.

People are going to look at this and think: these fuckers are like the Trumps and Kushners.

This should be in Politics, because it's going to play out in egalitarian politics.

Not disagreeing with you, but I have to ask: Does anybody in the USA believe in meritocracy anymore?

[CleanSlate]

(03-12-2019 11:09 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

(03-12-2019 06:40 PM)Sp5 Wrote:  

You think because some of these celebs were against Trump that this scandal is going to work in Trump's favor?

Au contraire. It's a lot bigger than a couple of virtue-signalling Hollywood women. This is huge.

It rips the mask off of "meritocracy," and all of the striving middle/upper-middle class are going to be outraged. There were hedge fund guys, big-firm lawyers and various other rich bastards in this.

People are going to look at this and think: these fuckers are like the Trumps and Kushners.

This should be in Politics, because it's going to play out in egalitarian politics.

Not disagreeing with you, but I have to ask: Does anybody in the USA believe in meritocracy anymore?

This is the big elephant in the room that no one wants to look at or talk about.

Red pill, indeed.

[jeffreyjerpp]

(03-12-2019 11:09 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

Not disagreeing with you, but I have to ask: Does anybody in the USA believe in meritocracy anymore?

The USA is somewhere between "Hunger Games" and "Wheel of Fortune" for most people. Insane how ruthless and Darwinian things have become- one job loss, big medical bill, etc, can practically ruin a family overnight.

We're nearing a "Let them eat cake!" moment. The discontent is hot and palpable, like lava gradually filling a chamber before an eruption.

When average people have to read about CEOs using bags of cash to buy futures for their privileged children, futures that are totally inaccessible for the bottom 70% of the country, the chamber gets hotter and the pressure increases.

Eventually......

[GT777733]

Once you see how deep this stuff runs, you should be able to rationally destroy the arguments of any SJW or person who is part of an ideal or group, and not standing on their own two feet as an individual willing to be judged on their merits and their own actions.

List of people virtue signalling or joining/preaching a movement, only to be found out to be doing sinister stuff behind closed doors or using it to push their own personal agenda:

Feminism - Felicity Huffman and college bribing
#Metoo - Asia argento and the underage boy thing
LGBT & Black Lives Matter - Jussie Smollett
Socialism - Ocasio Cortez and under the table payments to boyfriend, and tax reporting dodging going on by her staff by lowering overall salaries (also can't manage her own money and budgets so wants to take everyone elses)
Communism/Socialism/Nationalism - Russian leaders preach nationalism but siphon billions off into their own accounts and live like a kings while rural Russia lives in squalor.
Religion - catholic church and pedophiles, Islam and Allah not being able to be critiqued in some parts of Western countries

The lists go on and on and on and on.

Be aware of how the deception and sick games are being played (the worst parts are they pretend to be one thing but are really another, and they play on people's good intentions - it really is sick and weak as it gets), and keep it as verbal ammunition if you ever need to use it.

[Gremlin]

This is fucking great because (1) it gives Trump more ammo in his campaign to shred our liberal pseudo elites' talking points about inclusion and the little man, and (2) any time some asshole brings up Trump's college scam, which will become a big talking point again, he can deny and deflect the charge on to the democratic party.

[Richard Turpin]

This will be the tip of the iceberg and I'm sure the same thing will be happening in the UK too. Absolutely disgusting. Not just because of the crime itself, but because of the hypocrisy and virtue-signalling around it all. Just when you think celebs/actors can't get any lower!

I'm reading now that ethnicity was faked as well to take advantage of affirmative action laws. Credibility is just crumbling now for so many things.

'Oh, you're an actor/actress? ..... bet you got there by granting sexual favours'

'Oh, you went to a prestigious university? .... bet you're rich parents faked and paid your way into it, you're probably an idiot'

'Oh, you're an athlete? ....bet you just take better drugs than the next guy'

'Oh, you're an award-winning journalist? ..... (head explodes!)'

etc.

[IveBeenFramed]

[budoslavic]

(03-12-2019 03:09 PM)david.garrett84 Wrote:  

...
The scam said prosecutors, arranged for children to be recruited as athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities. Academic officials, including the former women’s soccer coach at Yale University, are also facing charges.
...

Yale University quietly announced the new women's soccer coach a while back after the former coach "resigned".

Via NY Post

Quote:

Ex-Yale women’s soccer coach charged with taking bribes in college scam

By Aaron Feis | March 12, 2019



The longtime coach of Yale University’s women’s soccer team allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to green-light two applicants for athletic scholarships to the Ivy — one of whom never even played the sport, according to bombshell federal court documents.

Rudy Meredith, coach of the team from 1995 through November 2018, was identified Tuesday as one of over 40 people — including TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — reportedly charged in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal also reaching Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA and other schools.

William Rick Singer, owner of the California-based Edge College & Career Network prep business, pointed the father of one Yale hopeful to Meredith in November 2017, telling Meredith that the dad wanted to make a “donation” to “one of those top schools” for his daughter’s application, court filings charged.

The next day, Singer sent the applicant’s resume, personal statement and art portfolio to Meredith, who doctored the application to say that the teen was co-captain of a prominent California soccer team — even though she’d never set foot on the pitch competitively, the documents charge.

The edit allowed Meredith to designate the girl, who isn’t named in the filing, as a recruit for his team and, therefore, make her eligible for scholarship money to the prestigious Connecticut college.

After she was admitted in January 2018, Singer mailed Meredith a check for $400,000, according to the papers — which add that in the following months, Singer received around $1.2 million from the girl’s family.

In a separate incident, Meredith allegedly accepted $2,000 in cash toward a promised $450,000 payment for getting another man’s daughter admitted during an April 2018 meeting in a Boston hotel room, the papers charge.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Singer had been charged.

Meredith faces federal charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to filings unsealed Tuesday.

As for Lori Loughlin, looks like she's holding up well at her age. WB




WNB Felicity Huffman.

[flanders]

I don't know if I'd chalk this one up to the Trump curse.
These morons who wanted their idiot kids accepted into high-ranking schools dug their own graves.

[jcrew247]

I can't believe Harvard would rather reject Asians with high SAT scores and replace them with these dumb entitled rich white children.

[Robert High Hawk]

The fact these people got caught and arrested is actually a very good sign for the American system as a whole. Maybe the first good sign we've had in a while, but a very good one.

Would the authorities have done anything about this in other countries? Would they have even cared at all?

[Days of Broken Arrows]

From the USA Today story (link here):

"Olivia Jade moved into her college dorm in September 2018, documenting the milestone on Instagram through a paid partnership with Amazon's Prime Student. It's a standard practice for social media influencers to earn money from companies by advertising products to their followers."

So, not only is Big Tech involved in this scandal, Big Tech is helping to pay for brainless Insta-hos to go to college.

The good news is that there is a LOT of outrage over this. People's anger about things like Tucker Carlson will come and go, but when you potentially fuck over their kids' chances of getting into college, they don't forget that.

BTW: This thread's title should really be changed.

[BortimusPrime]

Heh, after totally ignoring my explanation of how the ((()))s control Ivy League admissions my mom called me up today just shocked about this cheating thing. When she was surprised at my lack of outrage I pointed out that I've had about 18 years to accept that the education system is rigged while she was apparently in la-la land thinking my non-admittance was due to a lack of gumption or some other bullshit.

[Psygnosis89]

This Olivia twat is a textbook bimbo, right down to the makeup channel and "you guys know I don't really care about school and like just want to go to the parties and stuff" comment.

[Canopus]

By the way, haven't the media, feminists, and every social justice whacko out there spent the last decade or so screeching that American university campuses are rape factories where the nation's unsuspecting, nubile daughters are lured to Bacchanalian parties, plied with (GASP) alcohol, and assaulted by nefarious fraternity dudebros such as Jock McKavanaugh and Chad Magahat?

So why are rich celebrities bribing their way and breaking the law to send their poor, innocent daughters to these wretched hives of scum and toxic masculinity?

[MrLemon]

(03-13-2019 07:30 PM)Canopus Wrote:  

By the way, haven't the media, feminists, and every social justice whacko out there spent the last decade or so screeching that American university campuses are rape factories where the nation's unsuspecting, nubile daughters are lured to Bacchanalian parties, plied with (GASP) alcohol, and assaulted by nefarious fraternity dudebros such as Jock McKavanaugh and Chad Magahat?

So why are rich celebrities bribing their way and breaking the law to send their poor, innocent daughters to these wretched hives of scum and toxic masculinity?

Stop asking complicated questions.

Squirrel!!