Factbox: Celebrities, business leaders charged in U.S. college fraud scheme

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Federal prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a $25 million scheme to help...

- Federal prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a $25 million scheme to help celebrities, CEOs and other wealthy Americans cheat their children’s way into elite universities, including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.

FILE PHOTO: Actress Felicity Huffman arrives at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File PhotoHollywood actress Lori Loughlin, who starred as Becky on the ABC sitcom “Full House,” and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, the founder of clothing company Mossimo, were accused of paying $500,000 in bribes in 2016 and 2017 to have their two daughters designated as recruits to the University of Southern California crew team.

 

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How about charging college administrators for peddling worthless degrees?

These folks may have the worst timing ever in terms of getting caught. America is still reeling from the Manafort decision. We can only hope justice will prevail. We're getting sick and tired of the privileged few being handled with kid gloves. collegeadmissionsscandal

So.... show me the money.... caught

I m so glad we have the FBI spending 8 years of manpower on this heinous crime, forget the mob and domestic terrorists and Antifa

What did they do

Wealthy people pay bribes and cheat to get into places like USC (University of Spoiled Children)? I’m shocked! Now they just pay big $ to lawyers who get them off. On we go.

Biggest reason for suffering in the world seems to be, not poverty, not disease, But dishonesty!

You don’t need to be smart to get into elite schools, just rich

Name those CEOs and sons, not just the women and daughters!

EatTheRich

By thinking they were doing their kids a favor they ruined their lives instead.Disgusting.

Hmmm, not here. 😈😈😈😈😈

Good thing you wrote 'factbox' there because I would've assumed fake news.

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