Massachusetts DA: Actresses Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman Among Dozens Charged in College Exam Cheating Plot

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LELLING: “Today, we have charged 33 parents nationwide with hiring Singer’s group to defraud testing companies and/or various universities. These parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege. They include, for example, CEOs of private and public companies, successful securities and real estate investors, two well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer and the co-chairman of a global law firm. Based on the charges unsealed today, all of them knowingly conspired with Singer and others to help their children either cheat on the S.A.T. or A.C.T. and/or buy their children's' admission to elite schools through fraud. Singer’s clients paid him between $100,000 and $6.5 million for this service, though the majority paid between $250,000 and $400,000 per student. This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud. There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and I will add there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.”