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| Varsity Blues Cheating Scandal Is A Desperate Elites Tale |
| 2019-03-13 |
| [Victory Girls] About 50 people have had arrest warrants issued, been arrested, are negotiating their arrest or are being pursued in connection with a college cheating scandal code named "Operation Varsity Blues". Parents paying to get their mouth breathing, drooling spawn into schools the little idiots are not qualified to attend. If you missed the press conference today, it was absolutely jaw dropping. Not shocking or surprising just jaw dropping. Here from ABC New York is a short video recap: While the rest of us honorable schmucks were paying for college board prep tests (my son wouldn’t go) or at least begging our little cherubs to get a good night’s sleep prior to the test (nope to that one, too), these elitists, who are so much better than we are, schemed with a weasel named William Singer to phony up the test scores for the college boards, create phony elite athlete profiles and get their kids into college as athletes or just plain bribe college officials. And, then as if these elitists didn’t disdain us enough, they claimed the costs as charitable contributions on their tax returns. You cannot make this excrement up. Actress Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky on Full House) and her husband, Target fashion designer, Mossimo Gianulli are two of the parents caught in the web of lies. From Deadline Hollywood: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 All the discussion so far is about the bribe providers. What about the bribe recipients? The schools that were involved need to be sanctioned. The admissions officers involved need a "career death penalty" for their involvement in this. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-13 15:33 |
| #12 I don't want any of the Hollyweird or Wall Street people caught up in this to ever lecture me again about my taxes being too low, or my concern for the poor being so inadequate that only gummint enforced redistribution can solve the problem. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-13 15:30 |
| #11 Someone should play "New order confusion" over the IRS tannoy and send the daywalker in. Solve the vampire problem... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-13 15:10 |
| #10 swksvolFF - there's no doubt in my mind this is tax evasion. Just like what happened to Wesley Snipes, give them 1 year in jail for every tax return they cooked. Speaking of Wesley Snipes & tax problems, looks like he's in deep shit again with the IRS. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-03-13 13:13 |
| #9 The Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-03-13 12:22 |
| #8 We can discuss mission and resources, but I don't think Local Detective shuts down University of Your State on suspicion Celebrity's Child is not as bright as test indicates. And if raj is on it, this looks to be initially a federal tax evasion. I also wonder about interstate commerce; say paying for test cheating in CA for services (schooling) in MA. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-03-13 11:47 |
| #7 I wish these investigative resources would be applied to things that mattered. Have the local police do this instead. This is easy stuff and only for political face saving. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-03-13 10:46 |
| #6 and it's not really to skill up with study, just to get networking (which implies a large degree of nepotistic rent-seeking)! 'I was on the pocket polo team and have a degree is post-modern anti-colonial gender fluid basket weaving...at Hahvard.' 'Well that settles it...congratulations new supervisor of human resources.' 'Did you just assume my species? Better watch your ass.' |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-03-13 10:35 |
| #5 I think I'm on the right track: “In or about November 2017, the Hillsborough Parents filed personal tax returns that falsely reported total gifts to charity in 2016 of $1,061,890 — a sum that included the purported contribution” to Singer’s fake foundation. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-03-13 09:43 |
| #4 well at least one of the perps won't have to move far after conviction: "Mikaela Sanford, 32, of Folsom, Calif" |
| Posted by: Whegum Grumble8605 2019-03-13 09:14 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-13 08:15 |
| #2 And, then as if these elitists didn’t disdain us enough, they claimed the costs as charitable contributions on their tax returns. I'm wondering if that's what started the Fed / AG investigation. If the ratio of charitable contributions to your taxable income on the Federal tax return (1040) exceeds 4.2%, the IRS can and will audit your tax return. If that turns out to be the case then, yeah, they got too greedy all right. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-03-13 08:11 |
| #1 and it's not really to skill up with study, just to get networking (which implies a large degree of nepotistic rent-seeking)! American universities have an enormous problem caused by their taxpayer subsidy. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-13 05:44 |