Not much has been said about Laughlin recently but I think she's headed for a couple years stay at the Martha Stewart Inn.

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Judge Talwani: "Miss Huffman, do you have any dispute that you reached an agreement and ultimately paid Mr. Singer $15,000 to enable Mr. Riddell to correct your daughter's SAT test?"

Correct her scores? I believe falsify or fabricate would be more accurate.

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College educations are expensive today because of the student loan program.

Precisely!

I started college in 1972, on the GI bill. $300 odd per month. It took 1.5 months of that to pay tuition and buy books for the semester! I carried 4 courses per semester because that was required to collect the GI bill money.

All while working 60+ hours a week repairing IBM machines.

My GPA was 3.98 when I graduated. Later went to grad school (3.99 GPA) while working 60+ hours a week as an IBM program manager.

And there was not a single "gimmee" course involved.

I later did a couple "tours" as an IBM recruiter traveling around to various colleges and trade school. The amazing lack of knowledge I found on those campuses was shocking to say the least. Out of 100 students interviewed on campus I/we may have actually invited 2 or 3 back to the IBM facility for deeper reviews!

They used their bribes as tax write offs

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost...era-rick-singer-1627


Accountant Linked To College Admissions Scandal To Plead Guilty: Reports



A California accountant who allegedly worked for the mastermind of the so-called “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal is set to plead guilty to racketeering conspiracy.

Unsealed court documents revealed Friday that Steven Masera, a 69-year-old bookkeeper for William “Rick” Singer’s firm, plans to cooperate with investigators, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Singer, already a cooperating witness, is the founder of The Key, a Newport Beach college counseling company that offered families of prospective students assistance in getting into top schools. He and his partners allegedly pulled it off through myriad scams in which wealthy parents were complicit.

Prosecutors say Masera helped Singer launder fees paid by clients to rig college entrance exams and bribe sports coaches to portray their children as team recruits, according to Bloomberg News.

Singer also established the Key Worldwide Foundation, a phony charity through which he hid the nature of the funds, passing them off as donations for underprivileged kids, prosecutors say.

The LA Times reported that Masera addressed letters to parents from the foundation, falsely claiming that they received nothing in return for their five- to six-figure payments that prosecutors allege were in fact being given to exam proctors and coaches involved in the scam. Using the fake letters, families were able to disguise the payments as tax write-offs.

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a phony charity through which he hid the nature of the funds, passing them off as donations for underprivileged kids

It’s always for the kids with these Liberal Elitists, isn’t it.
They are always the compassionate ones aren’t they.
The story never changes.

Accountant, CPA or bookkeeper? Sloppy editing. Makes a big difference, like doctor, nurse, receptionist.

The above sounds suspiciously like fraud. Let’s see the charges get deeper and who else gets shaken loose.

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Accountant, CPA or bookkeeper?

Bloomberg News says CFO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...-guilty-and-help-u-s

The chief financial officer of the firm behind the U.S. college admissions scandal has agreed to plead guilty to racketeering charges and cooperate with federal prosecutors in their investigation, according to documents filed in court Friday.


Steven Masera, 69, helped William “Rick” Singer, founder of the Newport Beach, California, college-counseling firm and the admitted mastermind of the scam, launder fees that clients paid to fix their children’s college-entrance exams and bribes for university sports coaches to designate the kids as recruited athletes, according to prosecutors. The cash was funneled through a sham charity, the Key Worldwide Foundation.

His crimes involved laundering $9.5 million to $25 million, the government claims

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Lori Loughlin and her husband might be pushing the 50% tax bracket for combined federal and state taxes.

Maybe taxpayers picked up half of the bribe tab.

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Thanks.

Sounds like the developers of the scam are gonna throw all their clients under the bus.

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Sounds like the developers of the scam are gonna throw all their clients under the bus.

Oh yeah, they squealing like piggies!

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Sounds like the developers of the scam are gonna throw all their clients under the bus.

Is there no honor among thieves?

Ex-Stanford coach avoids prison time in college bribery scam.

BOSTON — A former head sailing coach at Stanford avoided prison time when a judge sentenced him Wednesday for his role in a sweeping college admissions scam at elite U.S. universities.

John Vandemoer is the first person to be sentenced in the case that exposed the lengths that some wealthy parents will go to get their children into the nation's top schools.

Vandemoer admitted to agreeing to help students get into the prestigious university as recruited athletes in exchange for money for his sailing program. He told reporters that he believed at the time he was helping his team but now sees his actions were wrong.

"A big part of my coaching philosophy has always been it's not the mistake that defines you but rather it's what you do afterward. I'm holding true to those words now," Vandemoer said outside the federal courthouse in Boston.

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Payments to elite colleges were donations, not bribes, attorneys say

Their clients are linked to the national college admissions scandal.

U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel sentenced him to one day in prison, which he was deemed to have served. He will pay a $10,000 fine and serve two years of supervised release, including six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring.

Zobel said she believed Vandemoer should be punished because "it's too easy to do this kind of thing." But she said she was swayed by the powerful letters of support he received and called him probably the "least culpable" of those charged in the case because he didn't take any of the money for himself.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen urged the judge to sentence Vandemoer to more than a year in prison to send a message to others charged in the case and people considering cheating the college admissions system, which he said is "crying out for reform."

"If we fail to take these crimes seriously, if you give just a slap on the wrist instead of real punishment. ... We are short changing not only the criminal justice system, but all those kids in high school who are working hard every day in an effort to improve their own lives and to get into the best school they can honestly and through hard work," Rosen said.

Vandemoer pleaded guilty in March on the same day that charges were announced in the so-called "Operation Varsity Blues" case against 50 people, including business executives and Hollywood actresses. Wealthy parents charged include actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin as well as Loughlin's fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli.

Vandemoer stood briefly in court and apologized to his family, friends, the sailing team and Stanford.

His lawyer asked for probation, noting that all the money Vandemoer took went to Stanford's sailing program while other coaches charged in the case are accused of personally profiting off the bribes. Vandemoer has already suffered through the loss of his job and housing, attorney Robert Fisher said.

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Accused parent says he intends to plead guilty in college admissions scam

Gordon Caplan is among the first of the 33 accused parents to acknowledge wrongdoing.

"His life has been essentially turned upside down," Fisher said.

The admissions consultant at the center of the scheme, Rick Singer, tried to get a student from China into Stanford through Vandemoer's sailing program in 2016, authorities say. It was too late to secure a spot for the student as a recruit, but the student got in through the normal process, authorities say.

After the student was admitted, Singer gave $500,000 to Vandemoer's program to secure his help with future applicants, prosecutors say. Stanford has since expelled that student.

Vandemoer also got $110,000 for the sailing program from Singer last year in exchange for labeling a prospective student as a recruit, prosecutors say. The student ended up going to another school.

He later agreed to help another student get in as a recruit in exchange for $500,000, prosecutors say. The student also went to another school, but Singer — who was cooperating with authorities by this point — sent $160,000 to the sailing program anyway.

Debra Zumwalt, Stanford vice president and general counsel, said in a letter filed in court that it views the $770,000 it received from Singer's sham foundation as "tainted" and is trying to determine "an appropriate way for those funds to be used for the public good."

Several other coaches have also admitted to charges in the case, including Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith, who is scheduled to be sentenced next week. Other coaches, such as former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst, have pleaded not guilty.

Huffman is among 14 parents who have agreed to plead guilty . The "Desperate Housewives" star has apologized for paying $15,000 to have someone rig her daughter's SAT score and is scheduled to be sentenced in September.

Loughlin and Giannulli, who are charged with paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as crew recruits, are fighting the charges. They haven’t publicly commented on the allegations.



LINk: https://www.nola.com/education...ge-bribery-scam.html

Sweet, innocent, guiltless little Olivia Jade, now moving into her Miley Cyrus phase.

Olivia Jade returns to Instagram, flips off media amid Lori Loughlin college admissions scandal

Isn't that cute? True colors

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Sweet, innocent, guiltless little Olivia Jade, now moving into her Miley Cyrus phase.

Olivia Jade returns to Instagram, flips off media amid Lori Loughlin college admissions scandal

Isn't that cute? True colors

Just finished reading and seeing that pic of the spoiled clueless brat and thought of Miley the pansexual right away. Mom and Dad go to trial in a few short weeks. We will see if young Olivia feels like posting her defiant poses on social media then. Clueless little twat.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Sweet, innocent, guiltless little Olivia Jade, now moving into her Miley Cyrus phase.

Olivia Jade returns to Instagram, flips off media amid Lori Loughlin college admissions scandal

Isn't that cute? True colors

Dang she needs to eat!

Perhaps Precious will twerk for the judge.

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Perhaps Precious will twerk for the judge.

Would it be inappropriate to sneak into the court house the night before and install a brass pole on the witness stand?

Felicity Huffman is another actress charged.

One of the many parents caught up in what’s known as Operation Varsity Blues, she’s scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 13.

federal prosecutors recommend that Huffman :

- spends a month in prison

- face a year of supervised release

- and pay a $20,000 fine

https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...andal-020110372.html

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Lori Loughlin case seems much more severe than Huffman's

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Ex-Stanford coach avoids prison time in college bribery scam.

So how could Coach Vandemoer's program hide $770,000.00 in "donations"?? Would the school not notice that kind of irregularity? Stanford can make good by admitting 2.5 students "out of state" for a free ride (undergraduate degree). Thanks Para!

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