Actresses Lori Loughlin & Felicity Huffman charged in massive college exam cheating scandal
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in massive college entrance exam cheating scandal in which parents paid up to $6M in bribes to get their kids into elite schools like Yale, Georgetown and Stanford
Daily Mail
- Lori Loughlin and husband allegedly agreed to pay bribes of $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to USC crew
- The two girls did not participate in crew, and Loughlin’s husband Mossimo Giannulli has also been charged in the scandal and was arrested on Tuesday
- Felicity Huffman paid a $15,000 ‘charitable contribution’ ‘to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter’
- She knowingly had an individual who was known to assist students or change their answers proctor her eldest daughter’s SAT exam, according to documents
- She is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud as are Loughlin and her husband in the scandal, which has been called Operation Varsity Blues
- Huffman and Giannulli have been arrested while a warrant is out for Loughlin’s arrest
- William Rick Singer, the founder of Key Worldwide Foundation, had been identified as the mastermind, and since 2011 has been paid $25M by parents
Aunt Becky with the bad heirs: Full House star Lori Loughlin and Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman are two of the 50 parents charged in a plot to get their children into elite schools (Loughlin with daughters Olivia and Bella in February)
Desperate housewife: Huffman allegedly paid a $15,000 ‘charitable contribution’ ‘to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter’ (Huffman and Macy with their daughters Georgia and Sofia at the Golden Globes)
Continue reading from Daily Mail…
How Lori Loughlin’s daughter cashed in on student status after alleged bribery scheme
NEW YORK POST
After actress Lori Loughlin allegedly bribed her daughter’s way into college, the “Full House” star’s teen cashed in on her student status — despite admitting she was just going to school to party.
Olivia Jade Giannulli in September last year posted sponsored content on Instagram for Amazon Prime, featuring a photo of her in her new dorm room at the University of Southern California with the caption: “Officially a college student! It’s been a few weeks since I moved into my dorm and I absolutely love it. I got everything I needed from Amazon with @primestudent and had it all shipped to me in just two-days.”
Loughlin was among dozens of people busted Tuesday for allegedly paying bribes to get their kids into top colleges.
Court documents allege she and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, “agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC.”
More at Page Six from New York Post
College scam mastermind Photoshopped students’ faces onto athletes: prosecutors
NEW YORK POST
The college prep expert who masterminded a nationwide admissions scandal that was publicly revealed Tuesday helped parents set up bogus pictures of their kids playing sports — and even Photoshopped teens’ faces onto stock photos of athletes to help them fraudulently get recruiting slots on teams at elite schools, prosecutors allege.
One of William Rick Singer’s preferred scams to get the kids of his bribe-paying clients into the schools of their choice was to funnel a cut to college coaches, who would fast-track the students for admisssion using their designated recruiting slots, officials said.
And they didn’t let the fact that some of the teens had never even played competitive sports get in their way, allegedly staging — or outright creating — bogus photos of them in action to make their applications seem legitimate to any skeptical eyes, prosecutors said.
“In many instances, Singer helped parents take staged photographs of their children engaged in particular sports,” Massachusetts US Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a Tuesday press conference. “Other times, he used stock photos, sometimes Photoshopping the face of the child on the athlete, and submitting it.”
To help the son of one co-defendant, California equity firm executive William McGlashan Jr., get into the University of Southern California, Singer said they would create a bogus athletic profile for the teen, according to court filings.
“I’ll pick a sport and we’ll do a picture of him, or … we’ll put his face on a picture, whatever,” Singer allegedly told the McGlashan. “I’ve already done that a million times.”
Read More at the NY Post
“These parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege.”
Boston authorities say the parents involved in the scam include “CEOs…successful securities and real estate investors, 2 well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer and a co-chairman of a global law firm” pic.twitter.com/RGfR56zC7O
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) March 12, 2019
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