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Speaker 1: a b R E zero one two. Hey, it's Austin,

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. We love you, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: back with a fresh episode on Thursday morning. But if

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Speaker 1: you should check out this new show from C thirteen

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Speaker 1: originals and award winning documentarian Andrew Jenks. It's called Gangster Capitalism.

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Speaker 1: The series is about white collar corruption, and season one

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Speaker 1: examine something you've probably been hearing a lot about lately,

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Speaker 1: the college admission scandal, also known as Operation Varsity Blues.

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Speaker 1: The scandal has exposed Hollywood celebrities like Felicity Huffman and

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Speaker 1: Laurie Laughlin, as well as CEOs, real estate developers, and

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Speaker 1: other business executives who are alleged to have taken part

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Speaker 1: in schemes involving bribery, money laundering, and fraud. Andrew Jenks

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Speaker 1: is covering the scandal as it unfolds. Each episode of

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Speaker 1: Gangster Capitalism goes deeper into the investigation and the inner

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Speaker 1: workings of the tricks that some very rich people have

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Speaker 1: been using to cheat the academic system. Jenks also takes

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Speaker 1: a step back to ask how could this all happen?

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Speaker 1: And where do we go from here? Here's the trailer

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Speaker 1: for Gangster Capitalism, which is available wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Speaker 1: See in a few days. So I gave him two dollars,

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Speaker 1: he made a stake, I da with my name and

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Speaker 1: his photo. He took the sakes under my name, and

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Speaker 1: I got a fourteen hundred and got into my dream school.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I feel like I'm at a red carpet event.

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Speaker 1: People have been waiting here for hours, lined up three

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Speaker 1: deep behind barricades, back back behind the gate, just to

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Speaker 1: and then the faces of this story finally emerge, but

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Speaker 1: they're not flanked by publicists. Laurie, do you have anything

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Speaker 1: to say? Instead, police and lawyers are at their sides.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry because Felicity Huffman and Laurie Laughlin are both

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Speaker 1: at the center of the biggest scandal in academic history.

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Speaker 1: This is a big story today. Operation Varsity Blues more

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Speaker 1: on that fallout from the college admission scandal rocking Hollywood

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Speaker 1: this morning. Although Huffman and Laughlin are the most well known,

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Speaker 1: there are only two of the many people charged with

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Speaker 1: scamming the system to get their kids into elite colleges. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's Olivia Jade. I don't really care about school. As

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Speaker 1: you guys all know. They were led by Rick Singer,

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Speaker 1: a con man posing as an admissions counselor, and his

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Speaker 1: vast network of co conspirators who exploited his client's sense

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Speaker 1: of entitlement, hubris, and obsession with status. It's the home

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Speaker 1: run of home runs aw to work every time. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: white collar crime is nothing new, but this time it's

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Speaker 1: different because the victims of these crimes are your children.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to gangster Capitalism. Season one of our new podcast

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Speaker 1: series is about the college admission scandal, produced and directed

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Speaker 1: by C thirteen Originals, a division of Cadence thirteen in

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Speaker 1: partnership with me Andrew Jenks. I'm a student at USC

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Speaker 1: University of Southern California. What did you think of the

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Speaker 1: scandal when you first heard? I wasn't surprised. It's really

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Speaker 1: not even a secret. If you're really surprised that this

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Speaker 1: is a thing, and then I'm sorry, where have you been?

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows the richest corrupt AND's been like that forever.

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Speaker 1: I dropped out of n y U after my sophomore

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Speaker 1: year of college because it felt like the game was rigged,

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Speaker 1: and this story has brought all of that back into

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Speaker 1: focus for me. So I've read the Affidavid's, the indictments,

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Speaker 1: and the phone records. I went to the federal courthouse

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Speaker 1: in Boston. I've spoken with college admissions experts, attorneys, parents,

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Speaker 1: student who have cheated, and the victims. And the signs

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Speaker 1: you're holding find says Lorie, please pay my tuition and

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Speaker 1: mine says after you get out of prison, of course,

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Speaker 1: and I'll introduce you to the team of misfits that

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Speaker 1: almost pulled it off. The ringleader, the genius from Harvard,

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Speaker 1: I gore, the ex Soviet and the middleman a k a. Mr. Fox.

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Speaker 1: And is there any risk this thing blows up? In

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Speaker 1: my faith? There are a lot of ways to do this.

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Speaker 1: I can do anything and everything. At its core, this

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Speaker 1: is a story about how money is used to hurdle

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Speaker 1: the rules, and how sometimes the rules only apply to

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Speaker 1: those without money. This is a game. Just realize that

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Speaker 1: this is a game. This is about our priorities, are values,

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Speaker 1: our culture, and our future. Really, it's about all of us.

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Speaker 1: This is gangster capitalism. Gangster Capitalism available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Radio,

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