Chinese family paid $6.5M to admissions scam mastermind
by
Ruth Brown
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
4/27/2019 6:34:07 AM
A Chinese family allegedly paid a whopping $6.5 million to crooked college prep adviser William “Rick” Singer in the nationwide admissions scandal — but still haven’t been charged in the case, according to a new report. Prosecutors mentioned the eye-popping figure last month when announcing they’d busted dozens of rich American parents for allegedly paying Singer to bribe their kids’ way into top colleges — but none of those families were accused of paying anywhere near that much. The Wall Street Journal on Friday revealed that the deep-pocketed family in question is from China, and have not been charged.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/27/2019 7:41:48 AM (No. 69803)
Elitism. Money speaks. We deplorables should learn to accept it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/27/2019 8:18:33 AM (No. 69808)
The amount doesn´t matter. The fact that it happened, does. Send the whole bunch to desert island.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
philsner 4/27/2019 8:28:37 AM (No. 69797)
If you have $6.5 million, why do you need a leftist university?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 4/27/2019 8:42:43 AM (No. 69791)
They´re claiming ignorance, but ignorance of the law is no defense. If they´re never charged, I figure they will have bribed somebody else.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NancyD 4/27/2019 8:47:06 AM (No. 69792)
Do any of these parents really think that if they pay for their kid to get into a college that they will be a better/smarter person?
If you can´t get in on your own merit, there is no way you can pass a class unless you cheat. WHAT am I thinking? They probably cheat their way through too.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/27/2019 9:19:54 AM (No. 69802)
Harvard and other "elite" schools set the bar the highest for Asians so the bottom of the barrel could occupy a chair there and the schools would not be accused of raaaacism.
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Now we know why this kid didn´t have the intelligence necessary...his parents are morons! What degree could conceivably earn this kid 6.5 million? If he was not a complete idiot, he could start a business with the 6.5 million and do far better than that college degree will ever manage. He´ll probably work for his family business or one of their wealthy friends with or without a degree.
Other cultures put way too much emphasis on degrees. I keep telling my friend from Iran to stop pushing her son to go to graduate school. In engineering you cannot make enough of a salary increase to justify the loss of a year´s salary and the loss of one year of experience in the field. Getting a good job is why people go to college. If you have that good job, don´t seek more degrees. People go for a masters when they can´t get hired.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
starboard 4/27/2019 10:19:24 AM (No. 69804)
Imagine the corruption that´s going on that we don´t know about.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/27/2019 11:02:04 AM (No. 69806)
Just wondering what her grades were at Yale.
If her grades were good, why kick her out? She was not the perpetrator.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/27/2019 11:06:55 AM (No. 69807)
I agree on the huge amount of money. That kid could have opened at least four high end restaurants and made himself tens of millions over a lifetime. College couldn´t do that for you.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
little guy 4/27/2019 11:07:32 AM (No. 69793)
There are not-so-secret "Crazy Rich Asians" all over China. Some of these families have hidden gold & jewels overseas that dates back to before Sun Yat-Sen. In some cases, this treasure chest is worth billions of Euros or dollars.
Dropping a cool six-and-a-half mill American on your special brat to "guarantee" he/she gets out of China ... and then overstays their visa here and holds out for amnesty ... is worth it to them. What else can they spend their hidden money on when you´re stuck in a hell hole like China? Might as well try and save your kid, no?
And don´t look now, but EVERY major top ivy college in the USA has hundreds of Chinese nationals in their grad programs and they all paid cash fortunes to go to that college.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
saguni 4/27/2019 11:41:34 AM (No. 69801)
The people who are paying these bribes aren´t interested in education, they are interested in making contact.
They think their child will form friendships with the children of rich, successful people and those contacts will give their child a rich, successful future.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/27/2019 12:12:06 PM (No. 69794)
Just a theory of mine, but I have to wonder if a part of this scandal is because we are seeing some of the results of AA quota systems in place for decades. White Elites are not going to sit by while their children are denied a place at these uni´s while minorities who actually shouldn´t be there either wind up as students. Seems to me there is something trying to come out here, and it isn´t just about Elites and their money.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
seesfarwoman 4/27/2019 1:47:16 PM (No. 69805)
Bribery is how they conduct business in China and other cultures. Apparently its how things are done in segments of our culture, too.
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Chinese Family spent $6.5 million to get their stupid, underachieving kids into a good school.
That seems like racism and discrimination to me. Lori Loughlin only spent $500,000 to get their white underachieving kids into USC.
It is just another example of whitey putting the other races down.
PS...I blame Trump.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/27/2019 5:37:05 PM (No. 69798)
2nd post apologies, but...#7, I would have your Iranian friend tell the son to earn an MBA at night. Many companies pay the tuition, and even have classes scheduled at the worksite.
Most universities with MBA programs make special efforts to accommodate full time employees. Their tuition payments are pure gold.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Omen55 4/27/2019 7:42:33 PM (No. 69796)
Well bad return on investment for that family.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2019 7:42:33 PM (No. 69800)
SO when will they get indicted?
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