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EP. 33 — The College Admissions Con Men with Jojo Gibbs
Good day, con-gregation! This week Jojo Gibbs, star of TWENTIES on BET, sits down with Laci to unpack the brains behind the Yale students with no brains: it’s the college admissions scandal! These parents spent THAT much money on their dumb kids? Damn, Felicity Huffman really put the Desperate in Desperate Housewives.
Research by Sharilyn Vera.
Sources:
https://www.nba.com/warriors/news/fraud-alert-playoffs-20190814
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/us/cooperating-witnesses-college-admissions-scheme/index.html
https://www.justice.gov/file/1142891/download
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/us/felicity-huffman-sentencing/index.html
https://deadspin.com/brilliant-but-also-dumb-warriors-fan-says-he-had-a-tric-1836604329
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