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feature 1.jpg?resize=1200,630 - Massive College Admissions Scam Involving Top Universities Uncovered By The Feds

Massive College Admissions Scam Involving Top Universities Uncovered By The Feds

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has carried out an investigation into an alleged college admissions scam and discovered that dozens of influential families and college officials from top universities engaged in practices involving “getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams.

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The ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ thoroughly vetted both parents as well as educational institutions’ officials and discovered that 33 parents, including TV stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, paid William Singer, a college admissions counselor, a collective sum of $25 million.

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Lori Loughlin – Getty Images

The massive sum was used to bribe “college officials, coaches and college entrance exam administrators, who then helped students’ secure admissions ‘not on their merits but through fraud.’”

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According to the FBI, the bribes were directed to high-ranking officials representing elite universities including Yale, UCLA, Stanford, Georgetown, Wake Forest, the University of San Diego, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, and to administrators responsible for overseeing SAT and ACT college entrance exams.

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Felicity Huffman – Getty Images

In one specific case, “the head women’s soccer coach at Yale was paid $400,000 to accept a student even though the applicant did not play soccer. The parents of that student had allegedly paid Singer $1.2 million.”

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In other cases, Singer would facilitate cheating on entrance exams by asking other students to take ACTs and SATs in place of children of parents who bribed him.

William Singer – Getty Images

Allegedly, the corrupt college admissions counselor would occasionally also pose as a student, “provide students with answers during the exams,” and “correct their answers after they had completed the exams.”

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Huffman has been accused of making a “purported charitable donation” in the sum of $15,000 to get her daughter into a high-ranking college.

Loughlin, on the other hand, has been charged “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.”

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William Singer – ABC News

Both stars were “charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud” and have been arrested on Tuesday.

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While neither the schools nor the students have been charged, a handful of officials and parents have been apprehended for direct exchanges of bribes.

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