Aunt Becky? Really?
Actress Lori Loughlin, known to many as Aunt Becky on the family TV sitcom "Full House," and her husband have been charged in a massive, nationwide college admissions scandal.
And she's not the only one. "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman also is named in the indictment.
More than 50 people - including several employees at some of the most well-known schools in the nation - were snagged in the sweeping investigation.
Basically, what the feds are laying out amounts to a bribery campaign, with the well off paying an admission consultant big bucks to grease the wheels to get their kids into exclusive schools. Among those taking the cash were several coaches. Part of the scheme was making the kids look like star athletes to boost their chances of admission.
The coaches worked at schools such as Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Wake Forest, the University of Texas, USC and UCLA.
Loughlin's husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, also was charged.
I will add this. Yes, the rich and famous get the same consideration under the law as everyone else. They get the presumption of innocence until proved guilty. But it doesn't look good.
I put two kids through fairly prestigious private institutions of higher learning, and one spectacular law school. I think I will be paying for it forever. I still think it was worth it. They got great educations. Those schools - in particular my daughter's law school - opened doors for them that simply would not have occurred otherwise.
But they did the work themselves, and got in of their own accord.
I'm not surprised that it didn't work that way for everybody.
That's the way most things in this country work.
Only this time a bunch of people got caught.
Including Aunt Becky.
Unreal.
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