Mossimo Founder, Wife Among Those Charged in Alleged College Entrance ConspiracyParents of college-bound students allegedly paid tens of thousands of dollars to ensure their children spots in America's top universities.

[Collection]Many of the nation’s most fashionable teenagers are trying to make their way into Ivy League schools. But the FBI says some are using questionable methods to get in.   Documents from a Massachusetts district court were unsealed on Tuesday, revealing a nationwide college entrance cheating scam. 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.   The plot was masterminded by California resident William Rick Singer, according to court documents, who paid SAT and ACT test administrators to look the other way as others took tests for

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