There are going to be so many heads rolling at so many colleges and universities over this, it's going to look like a macabre bowling alley:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/colle ... index.htmlFelicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin among dozens charged in alleged college cheating scam
(CNN)Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among dozens of wealthy parents, elite college coaches and college prep executives accused of carrying out a nationwide fraud to get students into prestigious colleges, according to a massive federal indictment.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday the scheme had two major pieces. In the first part, parents allegedly paid a college prep organization to take the test on behalf of students or to correct their answers. Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, regardless of their actual abilities, prosecutors said.
The documents also allege that some defendants created fake athletic profiles for students to make them appear to be successful athletes.
In all, 50 people were charged in the criminal investigation that went by the name "Operation Varsity Blues." Those arrested include two SAT/ACT administrators, one exam proctor, nine coaches at elite schools, one college administrator and 33 parents, according to Andrew Lelling, the US attorney for Massachusetts.
The parents, Lelling said, were a "catalog of wealth and privilege," including actors, CEOs, a fashion designer and the co-chairman of a global law firm.
"This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud," Lelling said. "There can be no separate college admission system for the wealthy, and I'll add that there will not be a separate criminal justice system either."
He added, "For every student admitted through fraud, an honest, genuinely talented student was rejected."
FBI Special Agent Joseph Bonavolonta said the parents spent anywhere from $200,000 to $6.5 million to guarantee admissions for their children.
Coaches from Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California, Wake Forest and Georgetown, among others, are implicated in the case.
The extensive case -- the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted, attorneys said -- involved arrests in six states across the country. The criminal accusations stretch from 2011 to 2019.
Lelling said it was not an accident that no students were charged on Tuesday, and said the parents and other defendants were "the prime movers of this fraud." Still, he said they were considering charging students down the road.
Three cheers for Mr. Lelling (he sounds like somebody I'd like to see running for public office) and the entire investigative team involved in this...
Excellent work...
