Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year – you have watched the news at least a little bit, right? – you’re unarguably familiar with what’s known as the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, in which more than 50 people, several of whom are big-name Hollywood and entertainment industry stars, were indicted by United States federal prosecutors.
Going under the codename of Operation Varsity Blues before federal agents simultaneously carried out the 51 total indictments, news of the operation was spread to the world on March 12, 2019, shortly after everyone accused of bribery or otherwise engaging in unfair, illegal activity to help their students be better off when it comes to getting accepted into the nation’s top universities.
Operation Varsity Blues – or the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, whatever you want to call it – ended up with evidence from the years of 2011 to 2018, during which the 51 people who were indicted all worked with an under-the-table organizer named William Rick Singer, with just 33 of the parents forking over a total $25 million altogether over the seven-year period.
The money was used to both help applicants get much higher test scores on either the SAT or ACT, if not both, which are used to determine how likely a potential student is to do in their classes and successfully finish their degree paths, or to pay off officials in admissions departments, college sports coaches, and other collegiate decision-makers in order to improve the likelihood that the paying parents’ children would get into the schools of their dreams or even completely guarantee that the children would make it into those universities or colleges.
Even though most people have long regarded the potential of new developments popping up in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal as poor, if not entirely unlikely, a brand new parent has been indicted by United States federal officials. Earlier today, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, a Boston, Massachusetts-based federal court pumped out an indictment for the first time, unsealing it for the entire world to see, in which a description of the 52nd parent to get busted and the mother’s activities were included.
The 48-year-old mother, who lives in British Columbia, Canada, paid an even $400,000 to pave her son’s way into the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), via getting a soccer coach to give him a scholarship. Xiaoning Sui was indicted on one count each of conspiracy and fraud.
Dil Bole Oberoi
