We hate it when people cheat, but when the elite do it including lawyers, it is worse. It must be mentioned however, that in many cases the children/students did not know what their parents actually did.
Rick Singer, the founder of the consulting company that devised this scheme just plead guilty.
At least 50 well known people have been charged in several states and dealing with several universities. It is the largest college admissions scam EVER. Celebrities, coaches, lawyers and wealthy power-brokers have been now a variety of Federal charges including fraud, cheating and bribery.
This scheme goes back to at least 2011 and the money involved could be higher than $25 million. Operation Varsity Blues, as an FBI investigation began however in May of 2018 when FBI stumbled across a lead on a completely unrelated and separate investigation.
The criminal complaint is here.
Schools implicated in this operation include Georgetown University, Stanford, UCLA, University of San Diego, University of Southern California, Yale, Wake Forest and University of Texas.
Here’s the full list:
Gregory Abbott
Marcia Abbott
Gamal Abdelaziz
Diane Blake
Todd Blake
Jane Buckingham
Gordon Caplan
Michael Center
I-Hsin “Joey” Chen
Amy Colburn
Gregory Colburn
Igor Dvorskiy
Gordon Ernst
William Ferguson
Robert Flaxman
Martin Fox
Mossimo Giannulli
Donna Heinel
Elizabeth Henriquez
Manuel Henriquez
Douglas Hodge
Felicity Huffman
Agustin Huneeus, Jr.
Bruce Isackson
Davina Isackson
Michelle Janavs
Laura Janke
Ali Khosroshahin
Elisabeth Kimmel
Marjorie Klapper
Lori Loughlin
Toby MacFarlane
Steven Masera
William McGlashan
Rudolph Meredith
Marci Palatella
Mark Riddell
Jorge Salcedo
Mikaela Sanford
Peter Jan Sartorio
Stephen Semprevivo
David Sidoo
William Rick Singer
Devin Sloane
John Vandemoer
Jovan Vavic
Niki Williams
John Wilson
Homayoun Zadeh
Robert Zangrillo
