Blues - Varsity

Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, took a different approach. They paid $500,000 to designate their two daughters as recruits to the USC crew team. Neither girl rowed. In an email presented in court, Loughlin wrote, "How do I proceed? ... I want to make sure we get this done right

The "Varsity Blues" scandal was easy to prosecute because it was stupid . It involved direct bribery and faked photos. The real inequality in college admissions—legacy preferences, donor lists, and the ability to pay a $50,000 consultant to craft a perfect "hook"—remains perfectly legal. Varsity Blues

But Singer offered a He claimed he could guarantee admission—for a fraction of the price of a building donation. The price tag usually ranged from $100,000 to over $1 million. Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo

The term will now forever live in the lexicon as a verb meaning: To cheat at a game you were already winning. And for the students who played by the rules, that remains the hardest loss of all. In an email presented in court, Loughlin wrote,

Late-night hosts (John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel) dedicated entire monologues to the absurdity of parents spending $500,000 to guarantee admission to a school their children didn't even want to attend.