re: Operation Varsity Blues on Netflix

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They completely fabricated the past 4 years of their child's life. Nothing they put on their admissions and/or scholarship paperwork was true. Hell, they went out to a costume store and bought rowing uniforms and found some boats to take pictures in. Mind you, the brilliant daughter thought that was entirely normal and never thought to question why she was now being called a rower....she didn't know anything was up. Yeah, I bet.

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What parts of that are illegal and worthy of a several months long fbi investigation? And most importantly, who was harmed by these actions?

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When all was said and done, it would have just been cheaper to pay your kids way.

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The kids werent smart enough to get into those schools on their own merits. That was the entire point. They opted to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars to acquire special treatment for their children instead of a couple million in the traditional and apparently acceptable bribery methods that have been around for decades

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Nevermind that neither of those kids gave a single runny shite about getting an education, and were just there "for the party". That was all for the "parents" and keeping up appearances.

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There are lots of things rich people do for the sake of keeping up appearances that their kids don’t give a shite about, and neither the fbi nor the general public ever cares about those beyond maybe an eyeroll. Why is this different?