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D_Master81

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4. Guaranteed this gets bigger

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 02:33 PM

Mar 2019

Much like most scandals, the initial story breaks and then the flood gates open. Does anyone really think there’s only 50 people out there paying or receiving payments?

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Mystery parent paid $6.5 million to get kids into top universities as part of admissions scandal [View all] Zorro Mar 2019 OP

Must be a big fish. Power 2 the People Mar 2019 #1

How unready would these kids have to be to be worth THAT. dawg day Mar 2019 #2

Who knows how big this becomes? Phentex Mar 2019 #3

Guaranteed this gets bigger D_Master81 Mar 2019 #4

Is his kid really THAT stupid? FakeNoose Mar 2019 #5

That's just weird, because that much money entitles them to a legal and traditional process... Hekate Mar 2019 #6

you really have to wonder. budding sex criminal? mopinko Mar 2019 #7

With that amount shouldn't they have just donated to the alumni program? Agschmid Mar 2019 #8

Well, we know it wasn't Trump Rhiannon12866 Mar 2019 #9

Why not just give the kid the $6.5 million? Yavin4 Mar 2019 #10

Because there's no prestige in that. Progressive Law Mar 2019 #11

That Would Have Been Better erpowers Mar 2019 #12

because college for them is not about making a good living but about bragging to their social JI7 Mar 2019 #14

Betsy DeVos? She has four kids born in the 80s and 90s. meadowlander Mar 2019 #13