Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among more than 40 people charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating scandal that involved paying up to $6 million to place their children into elite universities, according to court records revealed Tuesday.
The scam — which involved placing students in top colleges such as Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, University of Southern California, UCLA and the University of Texas — was run by a man in California who helped parents get their children into the schools through bribes, court documents unsealed in Boston showed.