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Speaker 1: See in a few days. So I gave him two dollars,
Speaker 1: he made a stake, I da with my name and
Speaker 1: his photo. He took the sakes under my name, and
Speaker 1: I got a fourteen hundred and got into my dream school.
Speaker 1: Right now, I feel like I'm at a red carpet event.
Speaker 1: People have been waiting here for hours, lined up three
Speaker 1: deep behind barricades, back back behind the gate, just to
Speaker 1: catch a glimpse, step back, get out of the way,
Speaker 1: and then the faces of this story finally emerge, but
Speaker 1: they're not flanked by publicists. Laurie, do you have anything
Speaker 1: to say? Instead, police and lawyers are at their sides.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry because Felicity Huffman and Laurie Laughlin are both
Speaker 1: at the center of the biggest scandal in academic history.
Speaker 1: This is a big story today. Operation Varsity Blues more
Speaker 1: on that fallout from the college admission scandal rocking Hollywood
Speaker 1: this morning. Although Huffman and Laughlin are the most well known,
Speaker 1: there are only two of the many people charged with
Speaker 1: scamming the system to get their kids into elite colleges. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: it's Olivia Jade. I don't really care about school. As
Speaker 1: you guys all know. They were led by Rick Singer,
Speaker 1: a con man posing as an admissions counselor, and his
Speaker 1: vast network of co conspirators who exploited his client's sense
Speaker 1: of entitlement, hubris, and obsession with status. It's the home
Speaker 1: run of home runs aw to work every time. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: white collar crime is nothing new, but this time it's
Speaker 1: different because the victims of these crimes are your children.
Speaker 1: Welcome to gangster Capitalism. Season one of our new podcast
Speaker 1: series is about the college admission scandal, produced and directed
Speaker 1: by C thirteen Originals, a division of Cadence thirteen in
Speaker 1: partnership with me Andrew Jenks. I'm a student at USC
Speaker 1: University of Southern California. What did you think of the
Speaker 1: scandal when you first heard? I wasn't surprised. It's really
Speaker 1: not even a secret. If you're really surprised that this
Speaker 1: is a thing, and then I'm sorry, where have you been?
Speaker 1: Everyone knows the richest corrupt AND's been like that forever.
Speaker 1: I dropped out of n y U after my sophomore
Speaker 1: year of college because it felt like the game was rigged,
Speaker 1: and this story has brought all of that back into
Speaker 1: focus for me. So I've read the Affidavid's, the indictments,
Speaker 1: and the phone records. I went to the federal courthouse
Speaker 1: in Boston. I've spoken with college admissions experts, attorneys, parents,
Speaker 1: student who have cheated, and the victims. And the signs
Speaker 1: you're holding find says Lorie, please pay my tuition and
Speaker 1: mine says after you get out of prison, of course,
Speaker 1: and I'll introduce you to the team of misfits that
Speaker 1: almost pulled it off. The ringleader, the genius from Harvard,
Speaker 1: I gore, the ex Soviet and the middleman a k a. Mr. Fox.
Speaker 1: And is there any risk this thing blows up? In
Speaker 1: my faith? There are a lot of ways to do this.
Speaker 1: I can do anything and everything. At its core, this
Speaker 1: is a story about how money is used to hurdle
Speaker 1: the rules, and how sometimes the rules only apply to
Speaker 1: those without money. This is a game. Just realize that
Speaker 1: this is a game. This is about our priorities, are values,
Speaker 1: our culture, and our future. Really, it's about all of us.
Speaker 1: This is gangster capitalism. Gangster Capitalism available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Radio,
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