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US college admissions bribery scandal 2019
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US college scam mastermind Rick Singer gets 3½ years in prison
The admissions bribery scheme ensnared celebrities and other wealthy parents who bought their children’s way into top-tier universities like Stanford and Yale.
The admissions bribery scheme ensnared celebrities and other wealthy parents who bought their children’s way into top-tier universities like Stanford and Yale
Those jailed for their part in the scandal include Full House actress Lori Loughlin and Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman
5 Jan 2023 - 7:37AM
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Wealthy parents found guilty in first US college admissions scandal trial
9 Oct 2021 - 7:11PM
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Actress Lori Loughlin released after two months in jail for US college scam
29 Dec 2020 - 8:31PM
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Tycoon Jie Zhao and Harvard coach charged in US$1.5 million bribery scheme
The businessman allegedly bought coach Peter Brand’s home for nearly double its assessed value in exchange for help getting his sons into the Ivy League school.
17 Nov 2020 - 9:44PM
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Actress Lori Loughlin reports to prison to start sentence for college scam
Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, paid half a million dollars in bribes to get their daughters into the University of Southern California.
31 Oct 2020 - 7:49AM
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Actress Lori Loughlin to plead guilty in US college admissions bribery scandal
Loughlin is accused of conspiring with a consultant to pass off her two daughters as promising rowing recruits to gain admission to USC.
22 May 2020 - 3:26AM
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Chinese mum pleads guilty to paying US$400,000 bribe for son’s UCLA spot
Xiaoning Sui, who lives in Canada, gave the money to a fake charity run by admissions consultant William ‘Rick’ Singer
22 Feb 2020 - 8:39PM
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Chinese mum to plead guilty to paying US$100,000 bribe for son’s UCLA spot
Xiaoning Sui has been detained in Spain for months, unlike 33 other parents involved in admissions scandal, who were allowed to post bond and remain out of custody.
30 Jan 2020 - 9:13PM
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Felicity Huffman released early from one of ‘10 cushiest prisons’ in US
Facility has been described as ‘Club Fed’, with past inmates including ‘Hollywood Madam’ Heidi Fleiss.
26 Oct 2019 - 9:15PM
Actress Lori Loughlin faces new charges in US college admissions scam
Full House star allegedly paid US$500,000 to get two daughters into University of Southern California, but school says they are ‘not currently enrolled’ there.
23 Oct 2019 - 9:55PM
Chinese mum ‘paid US$400,000’ to have son go to UCLA as fake soccer player
Xiaoning Sui, accused of paying to get her son into UCLA as a fake soccer recruit, has become the 52nd person charged in a sweeping college admissions bribery scheme.
18 Sep 2019 - 1:06PM
Felicity Huffman jailed for 14 days over US college admissions scam
Actress was first of 34 parents in case to be sentenced, and was also given a US$30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and a year of supervised release.
14 Sep 2019 - 9:47PM
Ex-Stanford sailing coach jailed for a day over college admissions scandal
Judge noted that John Vandemoer had not pocketed bribes for his own gain, said prison term would be deemed already served.
13 Jun 2019 - 6:37AM
Rick Singer faked college students’ CVs. He seems to have faked his own too
William ‘Rick’ Singer has admitted to accepting money in order to get the children of wealthy clients accepted into universities. In a newly uncovered deposition, he also seems to have also lied about his own experience.
26 May 2019 - 5:37AM
Actress Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in US college admissions scandal
Huffman pleaded guilty in federal court to a conspiracy charge related to her payment of US$15,000 to have someone secretly correct her daughter’s answers on the SAT exam.
14 May 2019 - 4:16AM
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Stanford admissions scandal is a cautionary tale for crazy rich Chinese
The backlash against Zhao Yusi, whose narrative of reaping the rewards of her own efforts earned scorn after it was revealed that her family had paid a large sum to Stanford University, is a reminder to the wealthy to be honest about their advantages.
9 May 2019 - 5:22AM
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Why the mother of Stanford admissions scandal student Yusi Zhao is my hero
The mother of Yusi Zhao was willing to pay any price – US$6.5 million in this case – to see her daughter get an education of value. Let’s be real: it’s a mother’s nature to go to great lengths for her children, and universities need extra funding to thrive.
7 May 2019 - 3:58AM
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Hard work got me into Stanford, says student in US$6.5 million scandal
‘The admissions officers basically do not know who you are’, Zhao Yusi says in a 2017 video in which she also admits her ‘natural IQ isn’t particularly high’.
4 May 2019 - 12:23PM
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Morgan Stanley adviser fired in admissions scandal vows to clear his name
Michael Wu introduced Chinese family to ‘fixer’ Rick Singer, who was paid US$6.5 million to help a student win acceptance to Stanford.
3 May 2019 - 10:46AM
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Chinese family paid US$1.2 million for Yale spot. Why weren’t they charged?
Sherry Guo’s lawyer says her parents were duped by ‘bad actor’ exploiting language barriers and their unfamiliarity with US higher education system.
3 May 2019 - 12:46PM
Chinese student ‘paid US$6.5 million for US university place’
Chinese family allegedly paid US$6.5 million to mastermind of college-entry cheating scheme to assure child’s admission to Stanford University, US media reports.
3 May 2019 - 10:41AM
Hollywood stars face court over US college bribery scam
Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman entered no pleas to charges that they cheated and paid bribes to get their children into elite US colleges.
3 May 2019 - 11:01AM
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Are you killing your child’s zest for life with an education obsession?
Hong Kong’s stressed out parents and students should not overlook the virtues of a less academic path to success.
3 May 2019 - 10:47AM
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Admissions scandal brings up treatment of Asian-Americans
After the US college admissions scandal, the discourse has exacerbated the vulnerability of Asian Americans, the most unfairly treated ethnic group so far in college entry
3 May 2019 - 10:52AM
The true heartbreak of the college admissions scandal is it’s routine
‘Legacy places’, wealthy donations, pricey tutors and education consultants – the education systems in Hong Kong and elsewhere routinely favour the wealthy even without this most recent outrage.
3 May 2019 - 10:50AM
Spurned students sue US colleges over admissions scandal
Lawsuits include one by Stanford students who say their degrees will be devalued and several by people whose ‘rights to a fair chance’ were stolen.
3 May 2019 - 10:53AM
U.S. college admission scam uncovered
3 May 2019 - 10:59AM
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Bribes aren’t the real scandal in US college admissions. This is
Why grease the palm of an admissions official when there are perfectly legal ways of cheating your way into America’s top universities? And among the most pernicious is this: the time-honoured tradition of ‘legacy’ places
3 May 2019 - 10:59AM
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US college admissions bribery scandal 2019
A criminal conspiracy to influence admissions to elite American universities was revealed in March 2019 when US federal prosecutors filed charges against at least 50 people, after a year-long investigation dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues”.
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9 September, 2024
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