FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
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FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
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Re: FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
#2This is pretty wild. Seeing the FBI tackle something like this is so far outside of the legal and cultural norms of society that it's difficult to even really comment on.
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Democracy dies in darkness!
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#5The one thing we have learned from the last few years is that white-collar / upper-class crimes are rampant and radically under-prosecuted.
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Because that's easier than feeding the link to archive.is and posting the archive link? ;)
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#7This might be more overt than the usual form, but how does this differ from donating a new building, department, or scholarship fund and subsequently getting your kid in?
My mother did well in the Masters program at Stanford and I would have likely gotten in if she donated a couple million dollars but she didn’t and I didn’t (despite getting an invitation a year after accepting enrollment at another university).
It’s not like we ever had that type of money, but if we did I wouldn’t have wanted that.
It seems like they’re targeting this more obvious version of bribery but not digging in and targeting the systemic issue of affluent people buying their children’s spot in college.
I really don’t think it’s much harder to prove that an underperforming student who got in because their parents donated a couple million (or tens of millions of) dollars took the place of a more qualified candidate. Maybe I’m wrong...
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I didn’t run into a paywall. Are you on mobile or desktop/laptop?
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#9Looks like they got cheap and tried to bribe low level people instead of donating directly to the official university fund raising people.
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#10Apparently, these parents were insufficiently wealthy to deflect prosecution.