Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are accused of paying backhanders to get their kids into elite universities. Some parents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, as much as US$6.5 million, to guarantee their children's admission, officials said. The University of Rhode Island says Ernst, who was hired as head women's tennis coach in August, was placed on administrative leave. AP This combination of images shows college campuses, clockwise from top left, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Yale University, and University of California, Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors said parents paid admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer millions of dollars to bribe their children's way into college.

Source: Stuff March 14, 2019 01:03 UTC