{"id":1727,"date":"2019-09-02T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2019-09-02T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T02:01:13","slug":"felicity-huffman-and-lori-loughlin-indicted-in-college-admissions-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin Indicted in College Admissions Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s news that we never saw coming, actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among more than 30\u00a0people who are facing charges as part of a nationwide\u00a0college admissions scam.<\/p>\n

According to ABC News, the scheme revolved around a man in California who\u2019d receive bribes from parents (ranging\u00a0from tens of thousands of dollars to $6 million) in exchange for help getting their children into\u00a0elite and Ivy League colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, and USC.<\/p>\n

The bribe would be funneled to one of two people: an SAT or ACT administrator, or a collegiate athletic coach.<\/p>\n

In the first case, standardized testing administrators would either hire a proctor to take the test for said student or have them correct the student\u2019s answers. In the second, a coach would create a falsified profile for a student (without athletic ambitions) that labeled them as an athlete.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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In a subsequent CNN press conference, officials shared more details regarding the tactics\u00a0used in the scheme: For example, parents were advised to\u00a0bring their children to\u00a0therapists to receive fraudulent notes saying their kids had a learning disability and needed\u00a0additional standardized testing time. Other\u00a0students’\u00a0faces were\u00a0Photoshopped on stock photos of athletes.<\/p>\n

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According to court documents, Huffman and husband William H. Macy “made a purported charitable contribution of $15,000 … to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. Huffman later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As for Loughlin, she and her husband allegedly “agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team \u2014 despite the fact that they did not participate in crew \u2014 thereby facilitating their admission to USC.”<\/p>\n

Reps for both actresses did not immediately return InStyle’s<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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