{"id":399406,"date":"2019-03-14T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/admissions-scandal-goes-beyond-arrestees-it-indicts-entire-system\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T01:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:27:39","slug":"admissions-scandal-goes-beyond-arrestees-it-indicts-entire-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/admissions-scandal-goes-beyond-arrestees-it-indicts-entire-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions Scandal Goes Beyond Arrestees &#8212; It Indicts Entire System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>Operation Varsity Blues. That\u2019s the name of a sweeping federal probe into what the Justice Department calls the biggest college admissions scam the agency has ever uncovered. On Tuesday, 50 people, including 13 college coaches, were arrested for taking part in a scheme where wealthy parents paid exorbitant bribes to secure spots for their unqualified children in elite schools, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, <\/span><span class=\"caps\">UCLA<\/span><span>, <\/span><span class=\"caps\">USC<\/span><span> and Wake Forest. Prosecutors have charged 33 parents, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. We speak with Ivory Toldson, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and president of Quality Education for Minorities. His new book is titled <em>No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear About Black People<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\" inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-485090909\">\n<aside class=\" inline-callout inline-callout--subscribe inline-callout--dark\" id=\"truth-1329846345\">\n<h2>Never miss another story<\/h2>\n<p>Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>This is<span> <\/span><em>Democracy Now!<\/em><span> <\/span>I\u2019m Amy Goodman, with Juan Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">JUAN<\/span><span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong><span> <\/span>We turn now to Operation Varsity Blues. That\u2019s the name of a sweeping federal probe into what the Justice Department calls the biggest college admissions scam the agency has ever uncovered. On Tuesday, 50 people were arrested, including 13 college coaches, for taking part in a scheme where wealthy parents paid exorbitant bribes to secure spots for their unqualified children in elite schools that included Yale, Stanford, Georgetown,<span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">UCLA<\/span>, University of Southern California and Wake Forest. Prosecutors have charged 33 parents, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin; Loughlin\u2019s husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; and Bill McGlashan, a founder of<span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">TPG<\/span><span> <\/span>Capital, one of the largest private equity investment firms in the world. At the center of the scheme was a man in Newport Beach, California, named Rick Singer, who ran a fraudulent company called the Edge College &amp; Career Network. He promised parents he could get their children into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/admissions-scandal-goes-beyond-arrestees-it-indicts-entire-system\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Varsity Blues. That\u2019s the name of a sweeping federal probe into what the Justice Department calls the biggest college admissions scam the agency has ever uncovered. On Tuesday, 50 people, including 13 college coaches, were arrested for taking part in a scheme where wealthy parents paid exorbitant bribes to secure spots for their unqualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}