Opinion: The college admissions scam is the perfect scandal in the golden age of grifters
William Singer leaves federal court Tuesday in Boston after being charged in a college admissions fraud scheme. By Gabrielle Bluestone March 13 at 10:07 AM Gabrielle Bluestone was executive producer of the documentary “Fyre.”
The desperation of the Varsity Blues scam is astounding, especially given that it involves enormously wealthy and influential people, who in a prior generation might have taken more legal, but no less forceful, actions to get their children into college. Why would so many respected people allegedly risk so much for something that ultimately matters so little?
"We’re not talking about donating a building so that a school’s more likely to take your son or daughter,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters. Like the Fyre Festival disaster, the Varsity Blues scam is shocking because of an apparent disconnect: In both cases, ambitious people went to extraordinary lengths to create the appearance of success and, along the way, lost track of the substance.
Singer delivered in a way that McFarland couldn’t: He actually got these privileged kids into school. But like McFarland, Singer found out that you can fake it only so far, whether that’s when your festival attendees show up and find Federal Emergency Management Agency tents and cheese sandwiches instead of a glam festival experience, or when the feds accuse your parents of not trusting you not to disgrace them.
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