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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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   The scheme was as brazen as it was elaborate: Dozens of wealthy   
   parents, according to court documents filed Tuesday, paid   
   millions of dollars in bribes to secure the admission of their   
   children into elite universities.   
      
   Test scores were inflated, essays were falsified and photographs   
   were doctored, all in an illicit effort to gain entry to schools   
   such as Yale, the University of Southern California and   
   Georgetown.   
      
   “We help the wealthiest families in the U.S. get their kids into   
   school,” said William Singer, the founder of The Edge College &   
   Career Network, in a phone call with a parent he was helping to   
   cheat, according to the charging documents. “There is a front   
   door which means you get in on your own. The back door is   
   through institutional advancement, which is 10 times as much   
   money. And I’ve created this side door in.”   
      
   Here is how Mr. Singer helped dozens of parents, including high-   
   profile Hollywood actors and wealthy business leaders, get their   
   children into top schools, according to the charging documents.   
      
   Parents claimed their children had learning disabilities.   
   Mr. Singer would instruct parents to seek special circumstances   
   for their children to take the SAT or ACT, the required   
   standardized tests for acceptance to four-year universities.   
      
   Parents would use medical documentation to claim their children   
   had a learning disability. The students would then be given a   
   chance to take the tests in a room with only a proctor, and   
   sometimes over two days. Then they would sign up to take the   
   exams at either a public high school in Houston or a private   
   college prep school in West Hollywood, two locations that Mr.   
   Singer said he “controlled.”   
      
   Mr. Singer would tell clients to come up with a reason they   
   would be in Houston or Hollywood, such as for a bar mitzvah or a   
   wedding.   
      
   Stand-ins were paid to cheat on standardized tests.   
   Parents paid between $15,000 and $75,000 to Mr. Singer’s company   
   so their children could be helped in one of three ways: Someone   
   else would take the SAT or ACT exams for the student; a person   
   would serve as the proctor and guide the students to the right   
   answers; or someone would review and correct the students’   
   answers after the tests were taken.   
      
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   In one case, according to the documents, Felicity Huffman, an   
   actress, told Mr. Singer her daughter’s high school had its own   
   exam proctor in mind.   
      
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   In many cases, the students were not aware of the cheating.   
   Elisabeth Kimmel, the owner of a media company, used Mr.   
   Singer’s services twice, first for her daughter in 2012 and then   
   for her son in 2017, according to the documents. Her daughter   
   attended Georgetown as a purported tennis recruit, and her son   
   was accepted to the University of Southern California as a track-   
   and-field pole-vaulter.   
      
   But he was caught off guard during orientation.   
      
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   Handwriting samples were provided.   
   According to the documents, Jane Buckingham, who owns a boutique   
   marketing firm in Los Angeles, agreed to pay $50,000 to Mr.   
   Singer’s company so that someone other than her son would take   
   the ACT. But the proctor would need to write the essay portion   
   in a handwriting that mimicked her son’s.   
      
   University coaches and administrators were paid to secure   
   admission.   
   According to the charging documents, after the exams were scored   
   high enough so that the students became competitive applicants,   
   the parents paid bribes — structured as donations to the   
   university and funneled through The Key — to university coaches,   
   who would identify their children as athletic recruits.   
      
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   [Read the full list of who has been charged here.]   
      
   Students’ faces were photoshopped onto athletes’ bodies.   
   A doctored image of the daughter of Agustin Huneeus Jr., the   
   owner of several vineyards in Napa and elsewhere, was edited   
   onto a picture of a water polo player, and described as a   
   varsity athlete who had earned a team M.V.P., according to the   
   charging documents.   
      
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   Athletic accomplishments were faked   
      
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