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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. Today, a fascinating story of a parent wrongly prosecuted by DOJ in the college admissions scandal.

What a twisted tale you're going to hear about today. It has to do with a little-told story of the 2019 college admission scandal, also known as Operation Varsity Blues.

You may recall the FBI accused dozens of parents, college employees, and their go-betweens in a bribery scheme where the parents were trying to get

their students admitted to top colleges. What you probably haven't heard about is one component

that sounds maddeningly familiar to me after years of covering all kinds of stories and scandals.

The Department of Justice wrongly accused a parent and tried to bully him

into pleading guilty to things he didn't do, and then kept piling on more and more charges to

punish him when he didn't agree to plead guilty. Most people can't fight that kind of pressure.

First, they don't have the money. It can cost

millions of dollars in legal fees and other expenses. Second, with all the wild overcharging,

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