Bribery, greed: All for a little bit of Ivy League

1) That is a non sequitur that has nothing to do with my post that you quoted.
2) Even so, there is a difference between a cop and a prosecutor.
3) Where there actually are laws against jaywalking and driving with a broken tail light, you are either doing it or you aren't. They aren't arresting people for mail fraud because the person jaywalked and there aren't actual laws against it.
4) If the point is that poor people often get shit on by cops, yes they do. The better example might have been the cop that breaks someone's taillight and then writes them a ticket. That said, manufacturing a crime where there actually was more of a civil fraud, in order to go after some privileged, rich people, because public opinion is "fuck em," does absolutely zero to address the fact that poor people often get shit on by cops. They are two distinct things.

 

I agree. If the universities, or any applicant who was rejected, feels they were harmed, and they want to go after anyone involved with this and try to hit them in their bank account, that is how a civil fraud should be dealt with. Of course, it's not as sexy, and it isn't raw meat to the people carrying pitchforks, and an overreaching prosecutor doesn't care much when they are determined to put the screws to someone in their crosshairs. But state AGs have civil law divisions, if a grandstanding DA wanted to make that his or her reelection cause. The DOJ has a civil litigation branch, if they wanted to take it up.

 

Reread your last few posts after you quoted me and then started putting words in my mouth. ... ending with you concluding that I am so far disconnected from reality based on YOUR concoctions.

Look. ...

The world is an unfair place. Wealthy people are able to buy things that poor people can't. They can cut lines by writing checks. They have access to advantages that others can't afford.

That isn't new. Although, if anything, things are probably more egalitarian in regard to things like college admission than they ever have been, even if there are people who can and will still game things to their advantage.

As unfair as you may find it, it's still not criminal, except in the hands of a prosecutor who can make anyone they want to target into a criminal.

I didn't say that a student selling roasted corn and mayo for 3 dollars a cup will be able to hire a lawyer, any more than I think that Felicity Huffman going to prison for 2 weeks on a mail fraud charge is going to do anything for that kid selling roasted corn and mayo.

The difference is that you are clutching a pitchfork, and telling me how realistic you are and how out of touch I am, when you are really just another resentful person who has decided "fuck them," and doesn't care how our system of justice gets distorted in order to get em.