Nationwide College Cheating Scandal - Actresses, Business Owners Charged, Mar 2019

[Inthedetails]

from the complaint document:

"I can make scores happen, and nobody on the planet can get scores to happen. She won’t even know that it happened. It will happen as though, she will think that she’s really super smart, and she got lucky on a test, and you got a score now."

I can't imagine cheating to get my kid in school and I can't imagine lying to my own child either and letting her believe something false like this. That's just so....messed up.

jmo

edited to add link: Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

 

[Inthedetails]

I have not read about the Sex in the City Ladies being charged?

I think the reporter got "Sex in the City" confused with "Desperate Housewives."

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jmo

 

[Gardenista]

Another article on Buckingham. She is into what kids want to buy.

Marketing guru Jane Buckingham caught up in college admissions scandal

More fodder for SNL, lol

Buckingham, who once authored a book titled “The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations,” wanted desperately for her son to attend USC. So the Los Angeles marketing maven — once called the Martha Stewart of the younger generation — turned to William Singer, a college admissions advisor, to help her son score high on the ACT standardized test, prosecutors alleged.

 

[Herat]

Lori's Loughlin's daughters Olivia and Isabella quit USC | Daily Mail Online

OMG, what is the USC Women’s Crew team doing to do?

 

[Inthedetails]

More fodder for SNL, lol

Buckingham, who once authored a book titled “The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations,” wanted desperately for her son to attend USC. So the Los Angeles marketing maven — once called the Martha Stewart of the younger generation — turned to William Singer, a college admissions advisor, to help her son score high on the ACT standardized test, prosecutors alleged.

If Hallmark is smart, they'll do a movie about this topic....and the family who refuses to participate prevails and wins the race for the crew team. Yay!

jmo

 

[Wagtales10]

"The son of Beverly Hills marketing CEO Jane Buckingham, whose mom allegedly took part in the nationwide college cheating scandal, apologized, saying he’s upset he was 'unknowingly involved' in the scheme."

https://nypost.com/2019/03/14/son-apologizes-for-moms-alleged-role-in-college-admissions-scandal/

they paid someone to take the test for him. BS he didnt know what was going on.

 

[squareandrabbet]

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it is true. Couples disagree all the time over child rearing and I think it gets even more divided sometimes with teens.
The article says Felicity’s friends thinks she deserves this and the kids had no idea and that it’s tearing their family apart. That feels very believable to me.
Feels like Aunt Becky’s family were 100% all in on the scheme together lol.

I'm telling ya, I wasn't joking with that "now Sophia Grace Macy knows she's the dumb daughter". I have my own sister. If they have any type of competition dynamic between each other already - brrrr. The parents as good as told us- the younger daughter, at 16, is passionate about poli. sci., a "real" discipline, unlike acting; and was determined not to "need" the help by Boss Momma.

Kids aren't dumb. This will speak volumes. "Tearing the family apart"? I can almost hear the conversations hidden in that nutshell.

If anyone wants to read the Affidavit in Support of the Criminal Complaint, it lists each individual case:

Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

I super-duper highly recommend this action, by the bye. It's super informative, the patterns you see repeating over and over again, etc.

Re: Jane Buckingham's son's apology:



I am not convinced that is sincere. He took the exam at home and provided a handwriting sample, saying "To whom it may concern,this provides an example of my current writing style. Thank you for your attention." (see link below) How could he not know something was afoot? I'm sure he had at least an inkling.

"...Jane Buckingham, accused of paying someone to take the ACT for her son and then asking for a copy of the exam to administer to him at home so he would think he’d really taken the test."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...l-golden-age-grifters/?utm_term=.91bb606d9df2

Maybe he's one of those kids who was already Ritalin'ed, ADHD'ed, and DX'ed to within an inch of his life, thus such accommodations were normal to him?

IKR?

USC is really a laughingstock in academic circles.

But it’s NOT about academics. It’s about getting access to really powerful, rich people - that bit with Olivia on the yacht didn’t just happen without some powerful pushing from mommy & daddy

Don't forget film school, though... other than that, they had might as well fight to get into Pepperdine, IMO.

 

[JnRyan]

I saw the list but most of the names didn't mean anything to me. So I found this on the wealthy parents:
These Are the Craziest Allegations Against Parents Implicated in Historic College Cheating Scam

I wonder if there aren't going to be a few more.

 

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Meet the finance fraudster who blew the lid off the college admissions scandal

https://nypost.com/2019/03/14/meet-...w-the-lid-off-the-college-admissions-scandal/

Morrie Tobin Is the Guy Who Uncovered Operation Varsity Blues – Rolling Stone

The Story Of How The Alleged College Admissions Scam Unraveled Is So Wild

https://dealbreaker.com/2019/03/dumb-perfect-perfectio-morrie-tobin

The Yale Dad Who Set Off the College-Admissions Scandal

 

[Mercedes]

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oh i mean just for the tv contracts she has and i think she will try obviouslty since its her work, i don't know if it will work. but yeah as where in the Spacey thing i don't think they even opened a dialogue it was just fired and finished

i don't even know what the courts do to people in these types of situations, i am not sure its been public in this kind of scale but if they have 700 people involved, you couldn't expect jail time for them, maybe for the guy who operated it i am guessing he is screwed as he is the mastermind

i do wonder if the customers will claim they are just customers i mean it is a defence no matter how weak it is, but there seems to be some text messages and emails so we shall see what that means later

IMO, customers as a defense is no defense at all. Maybe entrapment would fly for some.
Think about it like this: receiving stolen goods is a crime, even if one did not steal the goods, but only received them.

 

[Inthedetails]

more from the complaint document...

This is regarding getting a psychologist to write a letter that the student needs more time to take the SAT/ACT:

"Here’s the great thing. When she goes to college, she gets to bring this report with her and she’ll get extended time in all those things in whatever school she goes to, which is huge again. She’ll get all the accommodations when
she gets to college as well."

The parent was told to have the child act dumber than she really is to get the special testing accommodation.

Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

 

[Mercedes]

If youre angry about the college cheating scandal wait till you hear that public school budgets are determined by local property taxes and that the rich cordon themselves off into segregated municipalities to hoard resources from poor communities

If youre angry about the college cheating scandal wait till you hear that public school budgets are determined by local property taxes and that the rich cordon themselves off into segregated municipalities to hoard resources from poor communities

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[Inthedetails]

Charming quote by one of the fathers, from the complaint doc, bolded by me.

"Yeah, I, I hear ya. It’s just, to be honest, I’m not worried about the moral issue here. I’m worried about the, if she’s caught doing that, you know, she’s finished."

Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

 

[Wagtales10]

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2 times for the people in the back!

 

[Inthedetails]

Rick the scammer was working with the Feds when he recorded conversations with the parents. It's not as if he was recently caught and immediately pleaded guilty, which is what I thought. He's been involved with the investigation for months.


Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

 

[Mercedes]

This situation disturbs me for so many reasons. I think that there will be more ugly details to come regarding other families involved, other methods of cheating, and fallout of bad PR for the businesses and careers of the parents.

But it seems that the worst part of it legally may be the tax fraud. (The bribe money was set up to look like a charitable contribution, and at least some parents claimed it as a tax deduction.) I'm not a lawyer. Is this the action that is likely to have the worst legal consequences?

I would think so, IMO.

 

[Mercedes]

Rick the scammer was working with the Feds when he recorded conversations with the parents. It's not as if he was recently caught and immediately pleaded guilty, which is what I thought. He's been involved with the investigation for months.


Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

And, does Singer get a better deal for the more parents he recruits?

 

[kaen]

I have not read about the Sex in the City Ladies being charged?

I think the poster was confused. It is the Full House and Desperate Housewives, not Sex in the City.

 

[Gardenista]

And, does Singer get a better deal for the more parents he recruits?

I'm only about a fifth of the way thru the document, but so far it looks like the parents were working with Singer prior to the Feds catching on. So no recruiting so far.

 

[squareandrabbet]

Rick the scammer was working with the Feds when he recorded conversations with the parents. It's not as if he was recently caught and immediately pleaded guilty, which is what I thought. He's been involved with the investigation for months.

Nationwide College Cheating Scam Complaint | University And College Admission | Test (Assessment)

Yeah, I figured that out when I saw a lot of people earlier here and there, falling out about the "consensually recorded" description. For example, someone who thought from the description of these actions, that William H. Macy had agreed to dime his wife out and thus that's why he wasn't facing jail time ; along with the then-depressing 18 or so "thumbs up" this commenter had garnered.

The people in question, of course, weren't thinking of or didn't even know, that there's more than one side to a "consensual recording", and that there even were such a thing as "one-party consent states". TL; DR: I agree with you, Rick what's his name was the "consensual" party in the recordings; He, Himself, and Him. The parents certainly did not know they were being recorded in conversation.