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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #999999;"><em>&#8216;Families paid a combined $25 million, mostly funneled through charitable accounts, to bribe coaches and university administrators between 2011 and 2018&#8217;</em> &#8211; US Attorney for Dist. of Massachusetts</span><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Full House star Lori Loughlin and Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman are two of the 50 parents charged in</strong><strong> massive college entrance exam cheating scandal</strong>with the aim of getting<strong> their children into elite schools </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Parents paid up to $6M in bribes to get their kids into elite schools like Yale, Georgetown and Stanford </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Loughlin and her husband &#8216;agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team&#8217;</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The two girls did not participate in crew, and Loughlin&#8217;s husband Mossimo Giannulli has also been charged in the scandal </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Huffman paid a $15,000 &#8216;charitable contribution &#8216;to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter&#8217;</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">She engaged the services of an individual known to assist students or change their answers proctor her eldest daughter&#8217;s SAT exam according to documents</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Huffman and her husband William H Macy had then planned to do this again later this month with their younger daughter </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Both couples are charged with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud </span></strong></h6>
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<h6 id="para_top"><strong><strong><span class="timestamp timestamp-article "><img class="alignnone wp-image-310297" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Lori-Loughlin-with-daughters-Olivia-and-Bella-1-300x276.png" alt="" width="1091" height="1004" /> Full House star Lori Loughlin, [seen here daughters Olivia and Bella in February] </span></strong></strong><strong>and her husband &#8216;agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters fraudulently designated as recruits to the USC crew team</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Three Hollywood stars have been implicated in a massive cheating scandal.<br />
Those charged either had someone take a college entrance exam in their child&#8217;s place or a proctor who assisted them; purported fake athletic achievements or involvement in a team sport; having a third party take classes in place of their child; and submitting falsified applications to universities.<br />
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 schools including Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, University of San Diego, USC, University of Texas, Wake Forest, and Yale.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span class="timestamp timestamp-article "><img class="alignnone wp-image-310293" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Felicity-Huffman-left-and-Lori-Loughlin-1-300x184.jpg" alt="" width="675" height="414" />Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman [left], and [right], Lori Loughlin [right] are two of the 50 parents charged in a cheating scam to get their children into elite schools<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The scheme was uncovered by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, and involved parents paying bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into these elite schools.<br />
In many instances, the children were unaware that their parents had paid these bribes according to federal documents.<br />
<span class="timestamp timestamp-article ">Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among dozens of people charged Tuesday in a nationwide college admissions cheating scandal, accused of paying up to $6 million to get their kids into elite schools.</span><a href="http://ronmat96.gaming777.hop.clickbank.net"><img src="http://www.gamingjobsonline.com/affiliates/images/banners/2018/feb/banner728x90.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto"></a><br />
Huffman has two daughters with husband William H. Macy including Sofia, who is 18, and 16-year old Georgia.<br />
Loughlin and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli also have two daughters: Olivia, 19, and Isabella, 20.<br />
Macy was not charged but Giannulli was named alongside his wife in the papers.<br />
Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli are all charged with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud. FBI and federal prosecutors say William Rick Singer, a resident of Sacramento and Newport Beach and the owner of for-profit and nonprofit education groups, led <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article227454259.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a racketeering conspiracy that involved cheating on standardized tests</a>.<br />
Singer, 59, is accused of facilitating cheating on SAT and ACT exams in exchange for monetary bribes, most ranging between $15,000 and $75,000 per test. In some cases, a third party would “secretly take the exams in place of the actual students,” the indictment says.<br />
The scam took place between about 2011 through September 2018, the indictment papers said.</p>
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<h6 class=" card-content"><strong><span class="timestamp timestamp-article "><img class="alignnone wp-image-310296" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Falicity-Huffman-right-and-her-husband-Macy-second-right-with-their-daughters-Georgia-and-Sofia-1-300x204.png" alt="" width="1379" height="938" /> Reality TV star Lori Huffman seen [right] with husband Macy and daughters Georgia and Sofia at the Golden Globes, </span></strong><strong><span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> allegedly paid a $15,000 &#8216;charitable contribution to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter&#8217;</span></strong></h6>
<div class=" card-content">The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston described it “a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities.” Athletic coaches, parents and exam administrators were also implicated.<a href="http://ronmat96.ridtattoo.hop.clickbank.net?tid=applyeasycreamjar"><img src="http://getridtattoo.com/images/ApplyEasyCreamJar.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto"></a><br />
The schools include Yale, Stanford, Georgetown University and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.Huffman, who played Lynette Scavo on the ABC series “Desperate Housewives,” and Loughlin, known for her role as Aunt Becky on the ABC sitcom “Full House” and its Netflix spin-off “Fuller House,” were each charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.<br />
Andrew Lelling, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said in a news conference Tuesday that families paid a combined $25 million, mostly funneled through charitable accounts, to bribe coaches and university administrators between 2011 and 2018.<br />
&#8216;Beginning in or about 2011, and continuing through the present, the defendants &#8211; principally individuals whose high-school age children were applying to college &#8211; conspired with others to use bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate their children&#8217;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 &#8211; Los Angeles,&#8217; stated the 200 page document that was filed on Tuesday.</div>
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<div class=" card-content">Loughlin and Giannulli &#8216;agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team &#8211; despite the fact that they did not participate in crew &#8211; thereby facilitating their admission to USC,&#8217; according to the documents.<br />
Huffman paid a $15,000 &#8216;charitable contribution &#8216;to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter,&#8217; states the complaint.<br />
&#8216;Huffman later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so,&#8217; according to the documents.<br />
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The charging documents state that Huffman had the site where he daughter took the SATs moved from her own high school to a test center West Hollywood.<br />
Her test was then administered by a proctor who had flown in from Tampa and told investigators that he &#8216;facilitated cheating, either by correcting the student&#8217;s answers after the test or by actively assisting the student during the exam.&#8217;<br />
In this case, Huffman&#8217;s daughter scored a 1420, which was a 400 point improvement from her PSAT results just one year prior.<br />
Soon after the proctor was paid $40,000 by Key Worldwide Foundation, the same organization that Huffman would later give a $15,000 donation to, according to the documents.</div>
<h6 class=" card-content"><img class="alignnone wp-image-310311" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/William-Rick-Singer-1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="971" height="647" /><strong>William <span class="caption-text"> Rick Singer, a resident of Sacramento and Newport Beach, and the owner of for-profit and nonprofit education groups has been indicted on a vast racketeering conspiracy that involved cheating on standardized tests, according in the U.S. District Court of Mass.</span></strong></h6>
<div class=" card-content">The documents also include the transcript of a phone call between Huffman and the individual who facilitated the test in which she admits that her older daughter had assistance and expresses her desire for her younger daughter to get similar help.<br />
In a follow up call just this past December, Huffman and her unnamed spouse spoke about their daughter wanting to get into Georgetown.<br />
It was then decided that the young girl would take the exam twice, one on her own and once with help, to ensure she got the score necessary to get her into Georgetown, it is claimed.<br />
Then, at the last second, the couple decided not to have their daughter take the test with assistance.</div>
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<div class=" card-content"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-310308" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Rudy-Meredith-1-300x199.png" alt="" width="796" height="528" />Longtime coach of Yale Univ women’s soccer team, Rudy Meredith [Photo], allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to approve two applicants for athletic scholarships to the Ivy league school &#8211; one of whom never even played the sport, according to court docs</strong><iframe style="border: none;" src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?o=1&;p=48&;l=ur1&;category=motorcycleatv&;banner=1GTBWXZ6AWK39XVHDN82&;f=ifr&;linkID=17cef0367a1fbda76dfc41a503a44352&;t=konniemomen0a-20&;tracking_id=konniemomen0a-20" width="728" height="90" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />
William Rick Singer, founder of a college preparation business in California, was the leader of the scam and was expected to plead guilty Tuesday, Lelling said.<br />
Parents would pay Singer to have someone take an SAT or ACT exam for their child or correct the test afterward, Lelling said. Singer also paid coaches to designate unqualified applicants as athletes and would sometimes help families fabricate a profile for their children, including using Photoshop to digitally alter stock photos with an applicant’s face, the U.S. attorney said.<br />
“There can be no separate college admission for the wealthy,” Lelling said, adding that “honest, genuinely talented students were rejected.”</p>
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<h6 class=" card-content"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-310309" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/John-Vandemoer1-300x168.png" alt="" width="971" height="544" />Caught in the net: Sacramento business William Rick Singer and Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer [photo], are expected to plead guilty in the case on Tuesday.</strong></h6>
<div class=" card-content">Joseph Bonavolonta, the FBI special agent in Boston, called the actions of the 33 parents involved “selfish” and “shameful.” The real victims, he said, are the “hard-working students who did everything they could” to get accepted into those schools, but “ended up being shut out because far less qualified students and their families bought their way in.”<br />
Authorities said most parents try to conceal the plan from their child, but there were cases in which children did know about it.<br />
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At least 14 people were charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering, two were charged with money laundering conspiracy, and one was charged with conspiracy to defraud United States.<span class="roadblock"><strong><br />
</strong></span>A rep for Loughlin said Tuesday she had &#8220;no info to share at this time.”</div>
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