A law firm in the state of Massachusetts has released the names of 50 people who should have paid for fake test results or false certificates that their children were members of various school teams that practiced high-level sports. The FBI must have received evidence in the form of e-mails and recorded telephone calls.

The widespread cheating began in 2011 and includes universities such as Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California and Georgetown University. However, there is no indication that the universities have been involved in the cheating, says the BBC.

Must have paid six million dollars

Among the accused are actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Even high-ranking executives in Hollywood are accused of having paid to get their children into the "right" school.

Some have paid as much as $ 6.5 million, the FBI and the Justice Department announced during a press conference in Boston.

- This case is about widespread corruption with the aim of gaining access to the elite college by steadily using its wealth in combination with fraud. There may not be a separate system for entry into college for the wealthy and, I add, there will also be no separate judicial system, says Andrew Lelling, Massachusetts prosecutor, according to ABC News.

Pleaded guilty

The leader of the bribery scandal is reported to be a 58-year-old man who owns two companies, one of which is a college advisory firm. He is said to have received a total of $ 25 million in bribes from parents in 2011–2018 and has pleaded guilty to several offenses.

The suspect must have urged parents to obtain medical certificates that the children had learning difficulties and instructed them to move the entrance exams to one of two test rooms, where administrators helped to implement the bluff. He should then have paid the administrators $ 10,000 for each rigged test result.

Several other persons in the companies are also suspected of crimes.

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