Marni Soupcoff: The college admissions scandal should not be a crime
Who would have thought that wealthy celebrities such as model and actor Lori Loughlin, best known for her role as Aunt Rebecca on the inextinguishable TV sit-com Full House, would be snobs about academic pedigree?
According to allegations in court documents, the USC admissions committee was purposely misled into thinking the daughters were promising recruits for the school’s women’s rowing team. Both young women got into USC. Neither young woman has spent any time in a sweep or skull. There is unlikely to be any problem collecting on judgments against parents who were OK with paying a million dollars to get their kid into college
Same goes for collecting from the man who is alleged to have masterminded and controlled the whole scheme, and therefore alleged to have been receiving up to millions of dollars per client.
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