From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. as Heritage explains.

Operation Varsity Blues culminated early this morning when approximately 300 special agents from the FBI

and the IRS criminal investigations set out to arrest 46 individuals

across the country for their roles in an international college admissions bribery and money laundering

scam.

When news broke that famous actors like Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman,

William H. Macy, and several other wealthy individuals,

had been charged with conspiracy to elicitly gain admission for their children to attend prestigious universities, what was your reaction?

Late Night TV at a field day.

Morning.

The FBI announced that they were charging dozens of wealthy parents with using bribery

and other forms of fraud to facilitate their children's admission to elite schools, including Stanford, UCLA, Wake Forest, Yale, Georgetown, University of Texas, University of San Diego, and USC. The FBI was tipped off by the essay question on this year's common application. Ref reflect on an accomplishment that sparked personal growth

and or list your parents' credit card number.

What prompted your choice?

What is the three-digit security code?

Wow.

Make no mistake, the parents in these cases were very aware of what they were doing.

The FBI released one email written by Hoffman

when she found out that her daughter's school would provide their own

SAT proctor making it harder to cheat. She wrote, and this is a real email,

Rutrow looks like my daughter's high school wants to provide own proctor. She literally sat down

at a computer and typed the words rut row. Making this, making this the rare case where Scooby-Doo was the criminal.

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