In all, Singer took in $25 million over eight years running his college admissions scam.
#THE TYRANNY MILLION SERIES#
Another celebrity, the actress Felicity Huffman, known for her role in the television series Desperate Housewives, somehow got a bargain rate for only $15,000, Singer put in the fix for her daughter’s SAT.2 A television actress and her husband, a fashion designer, paid Singer $500,000 to get their two daughters admitted to USC as bogus recruits to the crew team. Singer used $400,000 of the payment to bribe the obliging Yale soccer coach, who was also indicted. One family paid Singer $1.2 million to get their daughter admitted to Yale as a soccer recruit, despite the fact that she did not play soccer. The chairman of a prestigious law firm paid $75,000 for his daughter to take a college entrance exam at a test center supervised by a proctor paid by Singer to ensure the student received the score she needed. Singer’s illicit admissions service did not come cheap. He even provided fake athletic credentials, photoshopping applicants’ faces onto action photos of real athletes. For students lacking the stellar academic credentials top colleges required, Singer devised corrupt workarounds-paying proctors of standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT to boost students’ scores by correcting their answer sheets, and bribing coaches to designate applicants as recruited athletes, even if the students did not play the sport. Singer’s company specialized in gaming the intensely competitive college admissions system that had in recent decades become the primary gateway to prosperity and prestige. They charged thirty-three wealthy parents with engaging in an elaborate cheating scheme to get their children admitted to elite universities, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California.1Īt the heart of the scam was an unscrupulous college-counseling consultant named William Singer, who ran a business that catered to anxious, affluent parents. What is interesting in this passage is the exploration of what happens to men who live under a corrupt and tyrannical regime.In March 2019, as high school students awaited the results of their college applications, federal prosecutors made a stunning announcement. In this long passage Milton is keen to demonstrate the justice of overthrowing a tyrant king, something which the American colonists were to do in their own way 150 years after Milton wrote these words. It is all these facts which make him a fascinating figure. It is not just because 2008 was the 400th anniversary of his birth, or that he is one of the greatest poets in the English language, or that he was a participant in the English Revolution of the 1640s which saw the overthrow of the Stuart monarchy, the execution of a king, the installation of a republic which turned into a new form of tyranny under Cromwell. We have turned to the writings of John Milton many times in the selection of these quotations. For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants.
But being slaves within doors, no wonder that they strive so much to have the public state conformably governed to the inward vicious rule, by which they govern themselves. If men within themselves would be governed by reason, and not generally give up their understanding to a double tyranny, of custom from without, and blind affections within they would discern better what it is to favour and uphold the tyrant of a nation. John Milton draws upon classical authorities and Christian writers to support his argument that the people have the right and duty to rise up in rebellion and overthrow a tyrant: Found in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
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