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@katiecouric : Goodness...the lengths people will go to get their kids into college these days. Federal prosecutors have charged 50 people across 6 states, including Hollywood actors, top executives, and elite college coaches in a $25 million college entrance cheating scheme. The alleged scam focused on getting students admitted to elite universities like University of Southern California, Georgetown, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, University of Texas, and Wake Forest by paying thousands of dollars to William “Rick” Singer - the founder of a for-profit college prep business based in California.  He would pay people to take tests for their children, bribe test administrators, and bribe college coaches and administrators to identify applicants as athletes “or other favored admissions categories.” Singer pled guilty this afternoon to charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice. Some of the parents, who include Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman, as well as Gamal Abdelaziz the former president and CEO of Wynn Resorts Development and Gordon Caplan, co-chairman of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, spent between $200,000 to $6.5 million to ensure their kids received spots at the schools of their choice. Loughlin and Huffman were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services fraud. Loughlin and her husband agreed to pay $500,000 to bolster their two daughters’ chances of gaining admission to USC. She also had her daughter post on a rowing machine to bolster the false claim that she was the coxswain of the LA Marine Club Team. Huffman and her husband William H. Macy paid $15,000 to get one of their daughters unlimited time for her SAT test. “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth, combined with fraud. There can be no separate college admission for wealthy, and I will add there will not be a separate criminal jus