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Stanford students first to sue colleges named in admissions scandal
The students claim that their applications were undercut by William "Rick" Singer’s plot to fraudulently get undeserving kids into top schools in exchange for bribes from their well-heeled parents. The suit was originally filed Wednesday in the US District Court for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s Northern District by two students at Stanford ‐ which is among the eight schools named as a defendant, along with Singer, his college-counseling business, the bogus charity he used to launder money and seven other schools to which he directed kids. But the suit was amended and re-filed Thursday, with one of the Stanford students dropping out, but replaced by three other students from schools across the country. Despite the students’ top-notch grades and extracurriculars, their applications to such prestigious institutions as Yale and Georgetown were rejected ‐ a fate the suit claims they might have avoided on a level playing field without Singer putting his thumb on the scale. All told, 50 people ‐ including parents, college sports coaches and proctors ‐ were charged Tuesday in the sweeping federal probe. Among the well-off parents caught up in the bombshell case are TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Singer pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering conspiracy Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court. Related: The Golf Channel - Mickelson 'shocked' about recent college admissions scandal Posted by: Fred 2019-03-15 |
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