HOLLYWOOD SHOCK: Stars, honchos allegedly spend millions in bribes to get rich kids in fancy schools

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dozens of wealthy parents, including "Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and actress Lori Loughlin, face federal felony charges for allegedly paying bribes to get their children into elite colleges. Nancy Grace explores the college entrance scandal with experts, including Jennifer Brovost, co-ounder of NYPEAS (New York Private Education Advisory Service), Mark Jerome, an athletic consultant who guides students who want to play college sports, and Dr. Kim Metcalfe, an educational psychologist and the author of Let’s Build ExtraOrdinary Youth Together. Also on the panel are Atlanta lawyer and juvenile judge Ashley Willcott, and syndicated radio host David Mack.

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0:00.0	The
0:03.2	Crime
0:06.2	Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:11.6	Breaking news this morning.
0:13.4	Celebrities in chief executives are among 50 people arrested in a nationwide college admissions
0:18.5	cheating scam.
0:19.9	They allegedly paid rives of up to $6 million to get their kids into elite colleges.
0:26.0	ABC's Aaron Kotersky has the latest.
0:28.1	Good morning to you.
0:29.1	This is just an incredible scheme that is being prosecuted out of Boston where court records
0:34.7	have just been unsealed naming dozens of actresses, business leaders and other parents who allegedly
0:42.5	paid rives of thousands up to millions of dollars to get their kids into Yale or Stanford
0:49.3	or Georgetown or other prominent universities.
0:52.6	In a way, Byron, this scheme seems to confirm the worst suspicions of those a little bit
0:58.6	jaded by the college admissions process who think it's maybe rigged toward those with
1:02.9	money.
1:03.9	Federal prosecutors say these bribes were paid to a college admissions coach in California
1:09.0	who is also under arrest.
1:10.9	And then he would in turn pay off college athletic coach to dummy up a scholarship or
1:16.6	to pay off an SAT administrator to fake test scores.
1:20.1	Wow, you are hearing from our friends at ABC.
1:22.9	That was Aaron Kotersky and Byron Pits talking about a bombshell.
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