Lori Laughlin arrested for college scandal

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Anonymous wrote:Lori Laughlin looks exactly like those southern women who feel the need to insert words like 'blessed', 'the lord' and 'amen' multiple times in a conversation. She has that same generic and phony smile thats prevalent in Dixie land

Except she's from Long Island

Is it surprising given where she is from?

Long Island is a cesspool.
That said, I am/was? a LL fan. I read a quote from her daughter today that said she was never really into going to college anyway, so maybe LL felt this was the only way to get her into a good school. Am I justifying what she did/ is it right? Of course not. I got into an Ivy without connections/ bribes/ legacy and her kid could have too, if she had wanted.

Many kids are pushed into college by parents. Child sounds like very spoiled and self centered. There were plenty of good UC schools, no need to do this except parents probably care where kids go for their own status.

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Anonymous wrote:When are they going to re-arrest the parents of Jared Kushner? They donated 1.2 million and got him into Harvard despite him being a mediocre student.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard

Donations are ok, bribes are not. That's what separates new money from old, the wealthy from the merely rich.

At what point do donations = bribes?

A donation supports the mission of the university. A bribe does not.

The mission of granting mediocre students entrance who wouldn’t be admitted if their parents didn’t pay for that new building?

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We know a dad who donated his building company for a new hall at the VA instate university that all of his (four) kids have been accepted to. He wasn't even embarrassed about it, and in fact, brings it up quite a bit! It's like he's proud of the fact that he bought his kids admissions. Unbelievable that this is allowed, but I guess if it benefits the school, they're not going to complain.

Look- we have parents bribing our Principal with large donations at a PUBLIC elementary school. Thousands upon thousands over the years.

I know parents that bought their kid a place on travel soccer team through large club donations.

I know parents that donated large amount of $ to get their dumb kid into a DC top private school.

This shit happens all the time.

My Uncle donates a shitload to his college alma matter, has a building named after him and his daughters didn’t even apply there. Tax write offs.

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Anonymous wrote:In all the reporting about this, it's said that the kids "didn't know" their parents had bribed the colleges, etc. But how do they know that? Of course the kids are going to deny knowing about it.

At any rate, I guess it's completely on the parents as the kids, even if they did know about it, were probably minors at the time. I can't even believe there are parents who would do this.

They knew. One had to go to a special place to take SATs where proctor changed the answers.

They were let in on false athletic admissions— of course they knew that.

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Anonymous wrote:Lori Laughlin looks exactly like those southern women who feel the need to insert words like 'blessed', 'the lord' and 'amen' multiple times in a conversation. She has that same generic and phony smile thats prevalent in Dixie land

Except she's from Long Island

Is it surprising given where she is from?

Long Island is a cesspool.
That said, I am/was? a LL fan. I read a quote from her daughter today that said she was never really into going to college anyway, so maybe LL felt this was the only way to get her into a good school. Am I justifying what she did/ is it right? Of course not. I got into an Ivy without connections/ bribes/ legacy and her kid could have too, if she had wanted.

Many kids are pushed into college by parents. Child sounds like very spoiled and self centered. There were plenty of good UC schools, no need to do this except parents probably care where kids go for their own status.

I'm PP you responded to. I agree with you on everything. LL probably wanted the daughter in X school, and since daughter didn't care, LL went illegal route. (?? Until/ unless proven guilty.)

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Anonymous wrote:Actors really are dumb. Their kids don’t fall far from the tree. The way these people went about bribery was so idiotic.

Maybe William Macy wasn’t acting in Fargo. He really is that dumb. Btw, is he throwing Felicity under the bus? Indictees day he was involved, but he has not been charged or arrested.

Lori L- dumb, just dumb. $500k for not even Harvard and for a kid that publicly states she doesn’t want to be there. Fake Crew recruit, come on!

These dumbshits deserve to go to jail.

Doubt they'll serve jail time. I've written Crown Media which own Hallmark and told them to get rid of Lori who is on a lot of their shows acting all pious and holier than thou.

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Anonymous wrote:When are they going to re-arrest the parents of Jared Kushner? They donated 1.2 million and got him into Harvard despite him being a mediocre student.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard

Donations are ok, bribes are not. That's what separates new money from old, the wealthy from the merely rich.

At what point do donations = bribes?

A donation supports the mission of the university. A bribe does not.

The mission of granting mediocre students entrance who wouldn’t be admitted if their parents didn’t pay for that new building?

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We know a dad who donated his building company for a new hall at the VA instate university that all of his (four) kids have been accepted to. He wasn't even embarrassed about it, and in fact, brings it up quite a bit! It's like he's proud of the fact that he bought his kids admissions. Unbelievable that this is allowed, but I guess if it benefits the school, they're not going to complain.

Look- we have parents bribing our Principal with large donations at a PUBLIC elementary school. Thousands upon thousands over the years.

I know parents that bought their kid a place on travel soccer team through large club donations.

I know parents that donated large amount of $ to get their dumb kid into a DC top private school.

This shit happens all the time.

My Uncle donates a shitload to his college alma matter, has a building named after him and his daughters didn’t even apply there. Tax write offs.

Did they not do this for you? Why is your grammar so poor?

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More info here - Macy & Huffman’s kid is still a senior in college. That was her first run at the SATs.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/how-hollywood-elites-cheated-to-get-their-kids-into-college/ar-BBUGNvQ?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280

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We know a dad who donated his building company for a new hall at the VA instate university that all of his (four) kids have been accepted to. He wasn't even embarrassed about it, and in fact, brings it up quite a bit! It's like he's proud of the fact that he bought his kids admissions. Unbelievable that this is allowed, but I guess if it benefits the school, they're not going to complain.


Look- we have parents bribing our Principal with large donations at a PUBLIC elementary school. Thousands upon thousands over the years.

I know parents that bought their kid a place on travel soccer team through large club donations.

I know parents that donated large amount of $ to get their dumb kid into a DC top private school.

This shit happens all the time.

My Uncle donates a shitload to his college alma matter, has a building named after him and his daughters didn’t even apply there. Tax write offs.



Bribing for what? Admissions to a public elementary school?

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We know a dad who donated his building company for a new hall at the VA instate university that all of his (four) kids have been accepted to. He wasn't even embarrassed about it, and in fact, brings it up quite a bit! It's like he's proud of the fact that he bought his kids admissions. Unbelievable that this is allowed, but I guess if it benefits the school, they're not going to complain.

Look- we have parents bribing our Principal with large donations at a PUBLIC elementary school. Thousands upon thousands over the years.

I know parents that bought their kid a place on travel soccer team through large club donations.

I know parents that donated large amount of $ to get their dumb kid into a DC top private school.

This shit happens all the time.

My Uncle donates a shitload to his college alma matter, has a building named after him and his daughters didn’t even apply there. Tax write offs.

Bribing for what? Admissions to a public elementary school?

There's only so many slots on the list. The D.C. Chancellor got in BIG trouble last year for using his connections to get his kid enrolled in a primo public school. The Deputy Mayor got the boot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2...-draft/?utm_term=.aa2e2f0b0bad

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We know a dad who donated his building company for a new hall at the VA instate university that all of his (four) kids have been accepted to. He wasn't even embarrassed about it, and in fact, brings it up quite a bit! It's like he's proud of the fact that he bought his kids admissions. Unbelievable that this is allowed, but I guess if it benefits the school, they're not going to complain.

Look- we have parents bribing our Principal with large donations at a PUBLIC elementary school. Thousands upon thousands over the years.

I know parents that bought their kid a place on travel soccer team through large club donations.

I know parents that donated large amount of $ to get their dumb kid into a DC top private school.

This shit happens all the time.

My Uncle donates a shitload to his college alma matter, has a building named after him and his daughters didn’t even apply there. Tax write offs.

Bribing for what? Admissions to a public elementary school?

There's only so many slots on the list. The D.C. Chancellor got in BIG trouble last year for using his connections to get his kid enrolled in a primo public school. The Deputy Mayor got the boot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/02/16/auto-draft/?utm_term=.aa2e2f0b0bad

Again- with all these connections, why did no one get you an adequate education?

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jsteele wrote:I locked this because the topic is being discussed in the College Forum, but am going to reopen it because I feel a second thread dealing with the celebrities is probably warranted.

Yes, Jeff! We must talk about celebrity gossip!

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I read an article on CNN last night but missed the part in how they were introduced to this fixer? Did they seek him out? Or did he somehow seek them out? The whole thing is fascinating to me.

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Anonymous wrote:They weren't arrested, were they? just the indictments unsealed.

No they haven't been arrested, just charged.

I read an article that said that Huffman was arrested and Laughlin agreed to surrender.

Oh what? WHERE

TMZ

lol - She's one hell of a DESPERATE housewife now . . .

https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/12/felicity-huffman-arrest-guns-drawn-fbi-college-bribery/

Felicity Huffman knew she was a target of the federal investigation into bribery in the college admissions process ... but she had no idea 7 feds would show up at her door Tuesday morning with guns drawn.

Sources familiar with the arrest tell TMZ, 7 FBI agents showed up at Felicity's Hollywood Hills home at 6 AM and drew their weapons as they ordered Felicity to come out and surrender.

Pulling guns on a female celebrity with no known criminal record or history of violence is crazy!

You never know when a felon might go full felony .

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Haven’t read any other responses so this might have already been said- the title to this post is wrong. She was indicted. She was out of the country yesterday and has arranged to turn herself in this morning in lieu of being arrested. She will be formally charged (arraigned) this afternoon during her first court appearance.

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She looks damn good, too bad