UCLA mom charged with paying $400K to get son admitted as fake soccer recruit
Source: USA TODAY
UCLA mom charged with paying $400K to get son admitted as fake soccer recruit
Joey Garrison, USA TODAY Published 1:47 p.m. ET Sept. 17, 2019 | Updated 5:10 p.m. ET Sept. 17, 2019
BOSTON A mother from Canada was arrested Monday night in Spain and indicted in the U.S. for paying $400,000 to get her son admitted into the University of California-Los Angles as a fake soccer recruit.
Xiaoning Sui, 48, is the 35th parent and 52nd defendant charged with crimes in the nation's college admissions scandal.
In a federal indictment unsealed in Boston federal court Tuesday, Sui was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Sui is a Chinese national who has been living in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada near Vancouver. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said she is currently detained in Spain and authorities are seeking her extradition to Boston to face the charges.
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Wow, that's a lot of money.
MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)to make your kid do their homework and get into college themselves. Not to mention giving them a sense of accomplishment having achieved college admission on their own merits. Are these loser parents going to purchase jobs for their kids too? Spouses? Homes? Children? Where does it end?
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)But they have the money to float their little dumbfucks throughout their entire useless lives.
And thus, we have our current President of the United States.
JI7
(89,172 posts)wherever they paid to get them in.
kids just not smart enough to get in to these schools on their own?
JI7
(89,172 posts)than school work. they are wealthy and spoiled.
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)The school officials have generally made quieter headlines.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)And, yes, they should be in worse trouble than the people trying to game their system.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)to the sports end of it. He was a coach or something. Glad to see it!
Mosby
(16,158 posts)That kept them out of prison so prosecutors could send the Hollywood moms to jail.
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)They were exposed and all over the news, and were fired/resigned/had already retired.
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)I never saw any of them
evertonfc
(1,713 posts)sucker mom
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,225 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)It is quite prestigious. USC admit rate is 17%
More_Cowbell
(2,190 posts)I've seen claims, no idea if it's true, that it's the world's hardest public university to get into.
Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)I did my math doctorate there - super strong math department usually ranked around top 5 - top mathematicians including Terry Tao and other powerhouses...and strong in other areas too.
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Elmer1007
(40 posts)The government is going to pay a half a million dollars to bring her back and give her 14 days in jail.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)Wouldn't it be cheaper to just own a residence in California, preferably Los Angeles, and then he'd automatically qualify? I mean, he'd still have to pass the SATs like everybody else. The parents would have to pay those nasty California taxes for 4 or 5 years, but it beats worrying about having to go to jail.
yardwork
(61,408 posts)Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)where spending $400k to cheat oneself into a university seems like a good investment. I would be annoyed if my parents spent $400k on this rather than just giving it to me to start my own business or invest it somehow. Then again, this kid probably has access to even more money than that, and the degree is just icing on his cake.
dreamland
(964 posts)I bet the kids are smarter than the parents. With all this money, they could have built their own school.
hardluck
(634 posts)It's been readily apparent for some time that we are falling way behind USC in having unqualified students pay their way into the university. I'm not sure we'll ever be able to beat USC in this category but it's good that we've at least started to compete.