"The shock is still reverberating..."
And how much fun is the college admissions cheating scandal rocking those in high places. It’s like the Fyre Festival for adults with grown children and oooooee the laughs don’t stop, not even for a minute.
For those unaware, The New York Times describes as…
In what the Justice Department called its largest ever college admissions prosecution, federal authorities charged 50 people on Tuesday with taking part in a nationwide scheme to game the admissions process at highly competitive schools like Yale and the University of Southern California.
Those charged include wealthy and powerful parents accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes, exam administrators and athletic coaches accused of manufacturing students’ achievements, and private admissions counselors accused of coordinating it all.
No big surprise that wealthy and powerful parents try and game the system but what if I was to tell you that a titan of the surf industry was caught up in the web too?
Oh it’s true! Just hours ago the great Mossimo Giannulli was named amongst the conspirators and what? Are you telling me you forgot about Mossimo?
The Italian founded his eponymous brand on Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California in the mid 1980s and it was an instant sensation amongst the day-glo’d surf rats. With sales booming Mossimo took the company public in 1996, paving the way for the Quiksilvers and Billabongs to follow down the sure fire path of riches and wealth and forever soaring stock prices.
Very soon thereafter, he did a massive multi-product licensing deal with Target showing brands like Lost how to effectively sell out.
The surf industry followed every one of Mossimo’s gilded steps and here he is, once again, ahead of the curve and let’s turn to Women’s Wear Daily for more.
More than 40 adults — parents to college-bound teenagers — were charged in multiple states for allegedly trying to cheat the system. The methods included paying others to take college entrance exams for their children, or by falsely stating that the students were athletes, among other allegations.
Thirteen athletic coaches from universities like Yale, Stanford, USC, Georgetown and Wake Forest in North Carolina have been implicated, along with test administrators and 33 parents.
Among them were Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman of “Desperate Housewives” and Lori Loughlin, best known as Aunt Becky on “Full House,” along with her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, who founded the American fashion house Mossimo in the Eighties. The privately held company is owned by the Iconix Brand Group.
There has been no statement yet but, to be honest, I’m more impressed that Mossimo is married to Aunt Becky.
Good on him.
Also, will any other notable surf personality be caught in the snare?
Who?
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I still don’t see how Jeanne Tripplehorn and her husband Hugh Grant figure into this?
Speaking of faith, McGlashen had very little faith in his son’s athletic abilities, even in pretend land. His angle was his son being on the football team, as a punter/kicker. No faith he could row a boat. No faith he could swim. Just enough faith that they would believe he could kick a football as a back-up. His kid got born again in make-believe as the lonely kicker.
USC = University of Spoiled Children. Fight on!
So what? America has become a nation of fakes, phonies and cheaters, from Lance Armstrong to A-Rod to the President. No big surprise this.
College: High School with ashtrays.
R O K…
Can anyone here teach me
?
It’s amazing what parents will sacrifice for their kids – in this case half-decent cosmetic surgery.
Mossimo looks quite gay. I bet that means he’s far more interesting than other surf industry persons.
I don’t believe for a second that the kids didn’t know! They were the ones pulling “gentlemen’s Cs” for four years of Spicoli High’s finest average educational experience, (Solo Cup Swastika party included at no extra charge), and then magically found themselves at USC? Yeah, but Na.
They’re all dumb, but not stupid!
Is this too bad to be good or too good to be bad?
Sexy handle!
You’re too good to be true!
“brands like Lost how to effectively sell out.” Hahaha ! Sincerely, good stuff.
missing
– botox the shit out of those things
Ultimate Sucking Championship?
This all just sends me further into depression.
But just so I don’t feel left out;
“Also, fuck USC”.
Feels good, doesn’t it?
If you are Scowaiian
What are you when you use the bathroom?
European.
Scowaiian.
I like that.
All’s the pity I’ve no Polynesian genes.
So, neither does your boss
ol andy
I can’t take credit for my joke below. I got it from the Alan Jones breakfast show.
Did you catch it this morn?
Had a climate guy on and he said we are all good! Phew! GLORIA!
It’s truly brave that you admit to listening to the Alan Jones Breakfast Show! But it is good to know that 99 out of 100 doctors have got it wrong & we don’t have cancer!
You have nothing to fear but socialists themselves
It’s like taking steroids to impress chicks with your steroid dick.
dare I say it ,”Trust fund kids!”
90% of the QS hates you for saying it.
fuk I didn’t know there were any trust funded Brazilians?
Trustafari, Brutus.
Silver spoons all the fucken way ….. cradle to the grave.
you could become President of the USA?
We didn’t really have dorm life
Had the parents opening the windows more than once
Hi Mr Carroll.
A thought occurred to me …. your new handle … you don’t think it sounds a bit, well, Harry Potterish ?
You know with a wand, a slight hand gesture and then, “Bex Vidina !” That curse they use for sex changes.
I have never laid eyes on the potz
But I reckon GMed likes it so it stays
Fair enough !
It was only a thought, I didn’t mean for one second that you’d invoked it on yourself.
That reminds me of the time I was caught fiddling with myself while wearing my house mates Gbanger.
I’ve never felt shame since.
She was sickened at first but I turned her around.
But will the white supremacists embrace their new cellmates? Will they convert to Islam? Will the Fed prison system improve their menu selection by popular demand?