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I am Scott Jasek, Editor of Inside Higher Ed. I'm just turning off my phone because I don't want

to be that podcast guy whose phone goes off. That guy's the worst. So I'm not going to be that guy.

Thank you. We're here today to announce charges in the largest college admissions scam ever

prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Scott, yesterday this huge scandal hit the world of

college admissions. It involved Antbecky from Full House and Felicity Huffman. What did Antbecky

and Felicity Huffman and all these people do? They were among the 50 people indicted yesterday.

The two actresses were among the 33 parents who were indicted. Yeah. Total of 50 were indicted.

That includes coaches, testing proctors, all on bribing their children into college through various

methods. Some of them were paying off coaches to list their children as recruited athletes. When in

fact, their children weren't recruited athletes. Others were basically finding ways to get false SAT

or ACT scores. So you have multiple levels at which bribes were being used to rig the admissions

process. Who did the investigation? So the investigation was done by the FBI, which actually named this

Operation Varsity Blues. Like the James Vanderbeck movie? Which is a very good name for this.

I gave it a tan. A tan. A fucking tan. The ringleader pleaded guilty yesterday. He's the one who ran

a private college counseling service alleged private college counseling service that funneled all

this money. Let's start with the sports thing because that's wild. How did parents allegedly get

schools to say that their kids were athletes when they weren't? They were bribing some coaches.

The coach controls the list. Parents joked about the fact that they were photoshopping their kids

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