Fraud Friday: The Varsity Blues College Admissions Scandal (w/ Jojo T. Gibbs)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jojo T. Gibbs (Past Lives, BET's Twenties) sits down with Laci to unpack the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal that involved actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. These parents spent THAT much money on their dumb kids? Damn, Felicity Huffman really puts the "Desperate" in Desperate Housewives. Stay schemin’ Con-gregation! (Originally Released 05/11/2020) Laci’s book is out now! Order “Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts and Schemes" here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laci-mosley/scam-goddess/9780762484652/?lens=running-press Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Jojo Gibbs: @jojotgibbs Research by Sharilyn Vera SOURCES: https://www.nba.com/warriors/news/fraud-alert-playoffs-20190814 https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/us/cooperating-witnesses-college-admissions-scheme/index.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tip-the-yale-coach-and-the-wire-how-the-college-admissions-scam-unraveled-11552524237 https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/us/felicity-huffman-sentencing/index.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-23/ex-pimco-chief-hints-at-college-scam-defense-gifts-not-bribes https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18262003/bill-mcglashan-college-admissions-scandal-tpg-stanford-usc-yale https://deadspin.com/brilliant-but-also-dumb-warriors-fan-says-he-had-a-tric-1836604329

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0:00.0	What's Popping congregation? It's your girl Lacy Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:04.8	Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess
0:12.3	vault. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back
0:15.0	your favorite episodes from behind the Paywall. Enjoy this episode from
0:19.3	Behind the Paywall and as always stay scheming.
0:22.4	Schemin! and as always stay scheming.
0:23.0	Scales, come, robbery and fraud.
0:30.0	Scales.
0:32.0	Scales, Colds, Cards, Robberry and Frog.
0:40.0	Scamp Goddess
0:42.0	Hello, welcome congregation to another episode of Scam Goddess.
0:47.6	It's me, your host, Diva Lacy, aka Scam Goddess,
0:51.2	that was my Instagram handle. Wow. My name is Lacey Mosley. I'm now going by my
0:58.0	Instagram handle guys. Every scam is going to change their alias every now and
1:01.6	then. Guys, I'm so excited to introduce our amazing, hilarious guest today.
1:07.0	We have Miss Jojo Gives.
1:10.0	You may have seen her on good trouble. She has her own show coming out called 20s on B.E.T.
1:17.0	Do you have a release date on that?
1:19.0	No, we don't have a release date yet.
1:21.0	Okay, T-B-T. we'll put that in the notes guys.
1:25.0	But Jojo, what's your relationship with scams?
1:28.0	Scams, you know, we run scams every day.
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