Scandal US bribes to access elite universities like Yale and Georgetown

WASHINGTON – The FBI chose as name
Operation The title of a movie whose plot has nothing to do with what happened in reality. In
Varsity Blues, a Texas student leaves his skin playing in his football team
institute to enter the
prestigious Brown University. The FBI raid on Tuesday with over 200 agents in six states has nothing to do with the sweat and tears that make up the great men they made themselves.

The scandal is huge because of the fibers it touches. But it also wraps the always juicy

Hollywood

The two photographs that all Tuesday circulated on the web while their names become a trend in Google are those of actresses

Felicity Huffman

(
Desperate women,
American crime) and Lori Loughlin (
Forced parents). Huffman has been arrested and is waiting to appear before a judge.

Considered the biggest fraud scandal in university admissions that has been pursued by the Justice Ministry, the Mafia conspiracy involves more than fifty people, including parents, businessmen and several coaches. the children of the privileged rich (Hollywood actors and other celebrities) will enter the prestigious universities

United States

like Georgetown, Yale or Stanford, among others. Brown is not on the FBI's list.

There were those who Monday night went to bed in the comfort of their rich lives and Tuesday woke up wrapped up in the
Operation Varsity Bluesin the midst of the biggest scandal in the admission system of the prestigious Ivy League and other renowned universities, institutions renowned for admitting only the best of the best.

In most cases, young beneficiaries may not know that their future has been favored by a bribe, as pointed out the prosecutor in charge of the case, Andrew Lelling. Those who will pay a prize are their parents and those of the educational setting conspired so that young people can get a place when they do not deserve it, always at the expense of a qualified student left out of the game. is happening now with those who accessed the system through the corruption is not yet clear.

The accusations that the FBI made public on Tuesday are known two weeks before the most famous universities announce admissions for the promotion to be authorized in 2023. It remains to be seen if all the names of the lists will appear after the Department of Justice is at the origin of the imputations.

At a press conference in Boston for more than an hour, Attorney Lelling pointed his accusing finger at parents. "Parents are the main driver of this fraud," said the prosecutor, who pointed out that these "privileged parents" were using their fortune to create a parallel parallel process of admitting their children. That said, he said that this would not be a "different justice system". "The real victims of this case are the students who were excluded from the process, which allowed much less qualified youth to enter because their family had paid for their access."

According to the story of an accused who is now working with the Crown, the
operating mode it aimed to change the school admission tests of children whose parents had paid or to create fake profiles of adolescent athletes in the institute when they did not actually have any athletic aptitude. In the case of Felicity Huffman, the Oscar-nominated actress
Transamerica he would have paid $ 15,000 for the modified test of his eldest daughter, whose father is also the actor William H. Macy (
Fargo,
Shameless). Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, also charged by the prosecution, would have agreed to pay half a million dollars for their daughters to be part of the South rowing team. University.

California

. None of them was a rower. Both were accepted at this university.

El País, SL