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   Liberal Democrats, too lazy and stupid to compete   
   scholastically.  This is the result of the present day inferior   
   California school system, once the envy of the entire free   
   world, after 40 years of Democrat control and parasitic   
   socialist union infestation.   
      
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   A teenage girl who did not play soccer magically became a star   
   soccer recruit at Yale. Cost to her parents: $1.2 million.   
      
   A high school boy eager to enroll at the University of Southern   
   California was falsely deemed to have a learning disability so   
   he could take his standardized test with a complicit proctor who   
   would make sure he got the right score. Cost to his parents: at   
   least $50,000.   
      
   A student with no experience rowing won a spot on the U.S.C.   
   crew team after a photograph of another person in a boat was   
   submitted as evidence of her prowess. Her parents wired $200,000   
   into a special account.   
      
   In a major college admissions scandal that laid bare the   
   elaborate lengths some wealthy parents will go to get their   
   children into competitive American universities, federal   
   prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a brazen scheme to   
   buy spots in the freshman classes at Yale, Stanford and other   
   big-name schools.   
      
   Thirty-three well-heeled parents were charged in the case,   
   including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders,   
   and prosecutors said there could be additional indictments to   
   come.   
      
   Read the Racketeering Indictment   
   Federal authorities say dozens of individuals were involved in a   
   nationwide bribery and fraud scheme to help students gain   
   admission to elite colleges and universities. Racketeering   
   charges against 12 of the defendants are detailed in this   
   indictment, one of a number of charging documents in the case.   
      
    23 pages, 1.06 MB   
   Also implicated were top college athletic coaches, who were   
   accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit   
   undeserving students to a wide variety of colleges, from the   
   University of Texas at Austin to Wake Forest and Georgetown, by   
   suggesting they were top athletes.   
      
   The parents included the television star Lori Loughlin and her   
   husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; the actress   
   Felicity Huffman; and William E. McGlashan Jr., a partner at the   
   private equity firm TPG, officials said.   
      
   The scheme unveiled Tuesday was stunning in its breadth and   
   audacity. It was the Justice Department’s largest-ever college   
   admissions prosecution, a sprawling investigation that involved   
   200 agents nationwide and resulted in charges against 50 people   
   in six states.   
      
   The charges also underscored how college admissions have become   
   so cutthroat and competitive that some have sought to break the   
   rules. The authorities say the parents of some of the nation’s   
   wealthiest and most privileged students sought to buy spots for   
   their children at top universities, not only cheating the   
   system, but potentially cheating other hard-working students out   
   of a chance at a college education.   
      
   In many of the cases, prosecutors said, the students were not   
   aware that their parents were doctoring their test scores and   
   lying to get them into school. Federal prosecutors did not   
   charge any students or universities with wrongdoing.   
      
   “The parents are the prime movers of this fraud,” Andrew E.   
   Lelling, the United States attorney for the District of   
   Massachusetts, said Tuesday during a news conference. Mr.   
   Lelling said that those parents used their wealth to create a   
   separate and unfair admissions process for their children.   
      
   “The real victims in this case are the hardworking students” who   
   were displaced in the admissions process by “far less qualified   
   students and their families who simply bought their way in,” Mr.   
   Lelling said.   
      
   At the center of the sweeping financial crime and fraud case was   
   William Singer, the founder of a college preparatory business   
   called the Edge College & Career Network, also known as The Key.   
      
   The authorities said Mr. Singer used The Key and its nonprofit   
   arm, Key Worldwide Foundation, which is based in Newport Beach,   
   Calif., to help students cheat on their standardized tests, and   
   to pay bribes to the coaches who could get them into college   
   with fake athletic credentials.   
      
   Mr. Singer used The Key as a front, allowing parents to funnel   
      
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