Re: Horse-faced Felicity Huffman was desperate to get her dumb slut daughter into college

Kristjan Robam <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Sep 2022 01:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
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No way.

Elizabeth Paige Laurie kirjutas Teisipäev, 2. aprill 2019 kl 10:45:04 UTC+3:
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> Liberal Democrats, too lazy and stupid to compete 
> scholastically. This is the result of the present day inferior 
> California school system, once the envy of the entire free 
> world, after 40 years of Democrat control and parasitic 
> socialist union infestation. 
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> “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman was desperate in 
> real life to see her older daughter go to college. 
> 
> The award-winning actress made no secret of her academic 
> aspirations for daughter Sofia Grace Macy, tweeting a photo of 
> herself and “Shameless” star husband William H. Macy walking 
> hand-in-hand along a tree-lined campus quad in December 2017. 
> 
> “Visiting colleges with our 17 year old. Makes me nostalgic 
> .?.?. WHILE ITS HAPPENING!” she wrote. 
> 
> But behind the scenes, Huffman, 56, was secretly scheming with a 
> crooked college counselor, William “Rick” Singer, to illegally 
> boost Sofia’s score on the crucial SAT exams by 400 points, 
> according to the feds. 
> 
> Singer, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy 
> and other crimes, began cooperating with authorities in late 
> September and helped them gather evidence, including against 
> Huffman, according to court papers. 
> 
> Huffman was among 33 wealthy parents charged Tuesday with 
> conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud 
> in a pair of related scams to cheat on college-entrance exams 
> and corruptly recruit student athletes. 
> 
> Others accused of paying to illegally inflate their kids’ test 
> scores include Gordon Caplan, co-chairman of the white-shoe law 
> firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Gregory and Marcia Abbott, 
> whose daughter received a perfect 800 on the math SAT and 710 on 
> the literature portion despite actually scoring in the “mid- 
> 600s,” court papers say. 
> 
> Much of the cheating was allegedly performed by Harvard grad 
> Mark Riddell, who at the time was director of college entrance- 
> exam preparation at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. 
> 
> Riddell, 36, would take SAT or ACT exams in place of the kids, 
> give them the answers they needed while proctoring their exams, 
> or review and correct wrong answers after the kids turned in 
> their tests, the feds charge. 
> 
> In many cases, the kids were unaware the cheating was going on, 
> according to Boston US Attorney Andrew Lelling. 
> 
> Riddell, who allegedly got $10,000 from Singer for each crooked 
> test, began cooperating with the feds last month and is 
> scheduled to plead guilty to conspiracy charges on April 12, 
> according to court records. 
> 
> Parents who took part in the test-taking scam typically paid 
> Singer $15,000 to $75,000 per test, with the money funneled 
> through Singer’s IRS-approved charity, the Key Worldwide 
> Foundation of Newport Beach, Calif. 
> 
> As part of the racket, the parents got letters from the 
> foundation that let them claim the payoffs as deductions against 
> their income taxes, according to Lelling. 
> 
> In Huffman’s case, she and Macy allegedly met with Singer in 
> their Los Angeles home, where Singer explained how he could hire 
> someone to proctor Sofia’s SAT “and secretly correct her answers 
> afterward,” court papers charge. 
> 
> During the summer of 2017, Huffman and Singer allegedly 
> exchanged a series of emails discussing how Huffman could get 
> “100 percent extra time” for her daughters to take the SAT, with 
> Huffman writing “Hurray! She got it,” on Oct. 16, 2017, when the 
> extra time was approved for Sofia. 
> 
> The plan appeared to collapse the next day, court papers say, 
> when Huffman got an email from Sofia’s high school counselor, 
> who said the teen would have to take the test at the school 
> instead of a testing center that the feds say Singer controlled. 
> 
> “Ruh ro! Looks like [my daughter’s high school] wants to provide 
> own proctor,” Huffman wrote. 
> 
> But Huffman and Singer later agreed to tell the counselor that 
> Sofia would take the test on a weekend — “so that she would not 
> miss any school” — and had the location switched to a test 
> center in West Hollywood, court papers say. 
> 
> There, Riddell “purported to proctor” Sofia’s exam, and when it 
> was graded, she got a score of 1420, according to the feds. 
> 
> That was “an improvement over approximately 400 points over her 
> PSAT, taken without [Riddell] one year earlier,” the feds 
> claimed. 
> 
> Court papers don’t detail how Riddell allegedly improved the 
> results or whether Sofia was in on the alleged scam. 
> 
> Huffman was arrested without incident Tuesday morning and was 
> scheduled to appear in court in Los Angeles, where reports said 
> Macy was waiting in a show of support. 
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