THE RICH & POWERFUL GET OFF EASY
THE good news is Varsity Blues college scandal fixer Rick Singer — who took big bucks from rich parents like Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman and Full House beauty Lori Loughlin to get their unworthy whelps into top universities — is being sent to the slammer!
The bad news is the 62-year-old white collar criminal, who pleaded guilty to falsifying college applications and bribing school employees, got a slap-on-the-wrist three and a half years behind bars!
The feds were right to launch the probe that targeted wealthy parents paying bribes to get their lazy dumbo kids, who didn’t have the grades or entrance exam scores, into top universities. The privileged kids took spots deserving smart poor students would have normally gotten.
But instead of really punishing offenders like sleazy fixer Singer, a former college counselor, and the parents, Uncle Sam is letting them off easy — proving privilege pays!
As GLOBE reported, Lori and her fatcat hubby, clothes designer Mossimo Giannulli, shelled out $500Gs to get daughters Isabella and
Olivia into the University of Southern California as members of the rowing squad — a sport they never even participated in. Lori got two months in the slammer and was fined $150,000, but was released after just 30 days.
Moneybags Mossimo got five months, was fined $250,000 and got out two weeks early.
Felicity, who paid $15,000 to a gal to take the SAT college entrance exam in place of her daughter Sophia, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced to two weeks in the pokey and fined $30,000. She was out after serving ten days.
Two weeks ago, smarmy Singer, who pocketed as much as $25 million from desperate parents over seven years, pleaded guilty to racketeering. The maximum sentence for the crime is 20 years — but Singer’s getting less than four years! And his easy-does-it sentence comes after prosecutors revealed the slimeball was reluctant to cooperate, destroyed evidence and even tipped off six of his clients.
What happened to throwing the book at lowlife weasels?
Hopefully, the greedy fixer will at least serve his full sentence — as wimpy as it is.
But if the way Lori and Felicity were treated by prison officials is any example, he’ll likely be out working on a new scam in no time!