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ere's Olivia Jade Giannulli's fake athletic profile listing her as a champion coxswain

#LoriLoughlin #MossimoGiannulli #Conspiracy #USC  The fake athletic profile that portrayed Olivia Jade Giannulli as a gold medal-winning crew coxswain and helped her gain admission to USC was included in a legal filing by prosecutors Friday in the college admissions scam. The profile lists Giannulli's skill set as "awareness, organization, direction and steering" and says that "she is highly talented and has been successful in both men's and women's boats." The profile also says she won two gold medals in the San Diego Crew Classic in 2014 and 2016, and it says she participated in Boston's Head of the Charles regatta in 2016 and 2017. But those accolades are false, and she did not actually participate in crew competitively, prosecutors have said. They say that the athletic profile was created by scam mastermind Rick Singer and his associates as part of a scheme to get Giannulli into USC as a fake athletic recruit, a strategy that he called th...

College admissions scandal highlights inequality of American education system

#CollegeAdmissions #Wealth #Privilege #TanyaMcDowell #LoriLoughlin #FelicityHuffman The recently revealed college admissions scandal, dubbed Operation Varsity Blues, has all the drama and intrigue of a Hollywood film: extreme wealth and privilege (alleged bribes of up to $6 million to get kids into elite schools), deception and, of course, celebrities and social influencers, notably actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion-giant husband Mossimo Giannulli, and actress Felicity Huffman. “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling at a press conference in Boston Tuesday. “There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy, and I’ll add there will not be a separate criminal justice system, either.” However, as the country fixates on the gross extortion by those who have the means to provide the best academic resources and advantages that ...