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The Admissions Scandal

https://sports.theonion.com/ncaa-launches-investigation-into-why-it-wasn-t-making-m-1833381271

NCAA Launches Investigation Into Why It Wasn’t Making Millions Off Recent College Admissions Scandal
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN—In a stern indictment of the cash-grabbing scandal that the student athletics organization was somehow kept completely in the dark about, the NCAA announced Monday the launch of an investigation into why it wasn’t making millions off of the recent college admissions controversy. “After the disturbing revelations that massive bribes were being paid out to people other than us, we’re launching an immediate inquiry into how we possibly missed out on this,” said NCAA president Mark Emmert, who claimed it was a “total failure of the system” that they were not raking in cash from wealthy celebrities when universities like Stanford, Yale, and USC were. “As an organization that always strives to squeeze money out of college athletics, I’m disgusted that this all went on right under our noses without us getting so much as a taste. There’s no way there isn’t some desperate millionaire out there willing to pay for his son to be a benchwarmer on a D1 team. To miss out on such a lucrative pay-to-play scheme goes against everything the NCAA stands for.” At press time, the NCAA had fined and suspended dozens of college coaches for not letting them in on the action.
One of the times where satire is passible as reality...
 
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With the absurd level of grade inflation, everyone gets a trophy mentality and affluent parents who show up to teacher meetings with their lawyers, I think gpa has become a joke. I read somewhere that there is an absurd percentage of high school students who graduate these days with perfect 4.0 (or above) averages. ACT/SAT and class rank seem to be the things that still show whether a school should admit a student.
Not when your child takes an IB program at an elite private prep school. No quarter is given.

I recall having a conversation with my daughter’s microbiology teacher when she was a sophomore about her progress and was basically told we don’t babysit here. You make it or you get lost. My daughter made it, but she busted her ass 100 times more than I ever did in high school.

Being able to take a test provides no insight to work effort. I work with a lot of smart people who are clueless to a deadline and profitability.
 
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I work with a lot of smart people who are clueless to a deadline and profitability.

Don't even get me started.

My main takeaway from this whole thing is simply this;

Lori Laughlin owes me reparations. The sooner she pays up, the sooner we can all put this behind us and start the healing process.



PSA for Lori- there are no Hallmark moments in my household. We are more towards the Shameless end of the spectrum if using tv shows as a point of reference. Govern yourself accordingly.
 
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Loughlin, husband and 14 parents face new charge in scam
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FILE - In this April 3, 2019 file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Steven Senne,


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BOSTON (AP) — "Full House" star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were hit Tuesday with a new charge in the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme.

The move comes a day after fellow actress Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents and a coach agreed to plead guilty — signaling an escalation in the case against the parents who are continuing to fight the allegations against them.


Loughlin and Giannulli were among 33 prominent parents accused of participating in a scheme that involved rigging college entrance exams and bribing coaches at elite universities.



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They were arrested last month on a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. An indictment brought Tuesday adds a charge of money laundering conspiracy against the couple and 14 other parents.

Amy and Gregory Colburn, a California couple accused of paying $25,000 to cheat on their son's SAT, were indicted on the money laundering and mail fraud conspiracy charges last month.

The parents are accused of paying an admissions consultant, Rick Singer, to cheat on their children's college entrance exams and get their children admitted as athletic recruits at such elite schools as Georgetown and Yale.

Loughlin and Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters into the University of Southern California as crew team recruits, even though neither of them played the sport.

They appeared in Boston federal court briefly last week and were not asked to enter a plea. They have not publicly addressed the allegations against them.

Other parents indicted on the new charge Tuesday include Michelle Janavs, whose family developed the microwave snack line Hot Pockets before selling their company, and William McGlashan, who co-founded an investment fund with U2's Bono in 2017.

Huffman, the 56-year-old Emmy-winner who stared in ABC's "Desperate Housewives," was accused of paying $15,000 disguised as a charitable donation to have a proctor correct the answers on her daughter's SAT. She and the 12 other parents agreed to plead guilty Monday to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

Prosecutors say they will seek a prison sentence that's on the low end of between four and 10 months for Huffman.

In her first public comments since her arrest, Huffman took responsibility for her actions and said she would accept the consequences.

"My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her. This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty," she said after her plea deal was announced.


https://www.10tv.com/article/loughlin-husband-and-14-parents-face-new-charge-scam-2019-apr
 
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It's almost as though you can hear his thoughts as he contemplates whether fucking her was worth it.
if by "her" you mean legitimacy, honesty, and the system, then, no, i don't think he has those thoughts.

article from 2016:


The Man. The Myth. Mossimo.

A lot of us go to college without ever going to class, but Mossimo went to USC without being enrolled at all. He not only convinced his dad that he was a student by falsifying report cards, Mossimo got him to fork over fees with fake tuition bills. In fact, Moss used this seed money to initiate his foray into the T-shirt biz. “SC was expensive, so that was how I was starting my company. I used all that cash,” he declares unapologetically.
 
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