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Lots of people get it. What he stated has already been stated.
Not so much (from July 2018)
FYI (not that anyone cares) I call Lifetime the ug~ly girl channel. Must be some attraction for women to see less attractive women involved with okay looking guys. Oh, I'm commenting for a friend.
Let's say these folks are guilty of donating money as a bribe in order to get their children in to school? Some people seem to think this isn't really a big deal. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Should any of the parents go to jail?
We don't usually jail politicians for this type of behavior.
A lot depends on what you can prove.
Bank, you had to get political and make a patently wrong statement.
Yale is very conservative, learn your subject before making a tired knee jerk claim.
Care to explain? Got a link?
Your assumptions are what's wrong. There are many schools involved other than Yale. The Loughlin kid went to USC and her mother facing charges is very conservative.
How private universities are enriched by public funds is through grants. Yes they go to specific projects and employees of a school, but they do enrich the schools.
@FirePlugDawg Welp, I mean, if you're going to search the net for the worst pic you can find, then I guess you win. I haven't seen (or thought about) Lori Loughlin in forever. I was just responding to the two pics that were part of the referenced article. In those two, she looks better than she did 35 years ago, and that's saying something.
If I'm the judge, I say, "You, on the right, case dismissed. You, on the left, life in prison."
To paraphrase Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the judge."
Aunt Becky is a national treasure and I enjoy her work whenever I'm home for the holidays and my mom has the hallmark Christmas movie channel on 24/7. Any of those movies that call for a female 40-something protagonist she has it on lock.
@Bankwalker you say you get it and then say this which is completely inaccurate. The parents involved in this bribing scheme did not donate money to the universities. They paid a guy from a company called "The Key" which masqueraded as a college counseling business. He organized bribes using the parents money to pay off ACT test administrators and to bribe college coaches to say a student was being recruited. They did this to trick the colleges into accepting unqualified students. Mega donors getting preferential treatment is a separate issue since they usually make donations over a long period of time instead of one payment suggesting a bribe. The money also goes directly to the university and not an individual which makes it hard to classify as a bribe.
The 2 most conservative Supreme Court Justices went to Yale, Thomas and Alito.Yale grad Brett Cavanaugh may prove to be as conservative as Thomas, who is almost cartoonishly far right.. Yale is the home of Skull and Bones and many conservative politicians went there. The Clintons went there, but they clearly are not of that culture.
Don’t know what the outcome for the parents will be but the guy they paid has already plead guilty to racketeering and probably more charges coming. Only the tip of the iceberg so far.
Also...the movie The Skulls just how much $$ can influence collegiate rowers. It's a nasty biz at Yale