How’d that work out?
Actress Felicity Huffman was arrested yesterday in the college admissions scandal. Here’s her husband, William H. Macy, coming to get her at the courthouse.
WATCH: 'Shameless' actor William H. Macy enters federal courthouse in downtown LA after wife Felicity Huffman among nearly 50 people indicted in college admission bribery scheme https://t.co/8yuGuKF3N6 pic.twitter.com/zxNRWCYun4
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) March 12, 2019
But she was far from the only Democratic donor in the bunch of folks arrested.
Via Free Beacon:
Several Democratic donors were among those charged Tuesday in a federal crackdown on a nationwide fraudulent college admissions conspiracy.
“Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits,” according to the Department of Justice. Documents unsealed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts show fraud extending to Yale, Georgetown, and other American universities.
Parents paid William Rick Singer, owner of The Edge College & Career Network, LLC, to ensure their children’s admissions to university, according to court documents. Singer would then arrange for special proctors to fly from Texas and California for the SAT and ACT tests, correcting students’ answers, according to the court filing. He’s also accused of creating fake athletic profiles for students, even though some did not play sports at all. Singer then bribed coaches and administrators of NCAA Division I programs like Yale, Stanford, and the University of Southern California to recruit the students, all but guaranteeing their admission, according to the DOJ.
Those charged represent a “catalog of wealth and privilege,” U.S. attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters Tuesday. “The real victims in this case are the hardworking students” who were denied admissions because the children of wealthy parents “simply bought their way in,” according to Lelling.
The 33 parents paid a total of $25 million to Singer’s company as part of the scheme, ABC News reported. Also implicated were top college coaches for their alleged role in accepting millions of dollars to help admit students.
Most of the press reaction Tuesday centered on Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, two prominent Hollywood stars charged in the sting.
Huffman, when not acting, is a generous donor to Democratic candidates. Huffman has donated thousands of dollars since 2016 to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), according to the Federal Election Commission’s site. Prior to that, she donated frequently to President Barack Obama’s election efforts.