I think it’s two things: 1) Loughlin has a semi-famous daughter, so covering her is a twofer, and 2) Huffman’s crime was, relatively of course, minor: only paying $15k to have her daughter’s SAT scores “adjusted.” I think people find that less brazen than the fake athletes.

This is a massively underrated comment.

College athletic recruiting is tricky and not necessarily intuitive. A student can be heavily recruited and even expect to play on a team if admitted, and then on day one of school can change their mind about playing the sport without consequence. Since no scholarships were in the balance, if a student doesn’t want…

That is not how college admissions work. There’s no guarantee whatsoever that if this particular student wasn’t admitted fraudulently, some other kid would be. That is not how selective college admissions work.

Yes. In this specific case, the school even insisted that the student take a school-administered exam, but Huffman rebuffed this request. A lot of people don’t realize that a parent can arrange smaller or even individual testings for these standardized tests, so long as it is administered by an approved institution,…

Lol, are you serious? Her dad is worth half a billion dollars, dude.  They are actually rich.

It is.

Sounds like some serial killer shit, but okay.

Lol, having grown up in Chicagoland, where “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying” is the unofficial motto, I find it hilarious that we believe anything coming from a mouth of a IL prosecutor, but okay. I’d love to be shown a case in IL wherein the defendant was charged with sixteen felony counts, non-violent or…

All I am saying is that this is not a typical deferred prosecution. Maybe a “deal” happened, but legally, nah.

Serious question: how? Do you not wet the bristles before adding paste? Or, if you do, do you look at the bristles before wetting them?

Right?! I blast my brush with the hottest water the sink can give for several seconds before I put any paste on. I would never notice that the bristles were already wet unless they were literally dripping and, honestly, probably not even then.

GAHHH NO. That cake is SOOOOO overrated. Honestly, the chocolate layer cake at Costco is better than the Portillo’s one.

In what world do people notice, without prompting, the bristles on their toothbrush are wet?

Ha, yeah, I remember my mom telling me she had to stop doing that with my brother when we were kids, because she knew he would just lie (badly). She started framing things as, “I know you did (or didn’t) do this; please tell me why.”

In that linked article, his attorney specifically says there was no deal, no deferred prosecution. Reporters are just being lazy with their language, and possibly, because we still don’t really know what happened.

This is not a deferred prosecution! Good at other things, Jezebel sucks at reporting news. The article they link is very clear that this is not a deferred prosecution.

From the linked Sun Times article:

I’m saying they are doing bad reporting, which should not be all that surprising. The state made a motion to nolle prosequi, which drops charges, and this was done with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be brought again.  A deal would require him to do something or to stay out of trouble (or both) in order for…

It’s not a deferred prosecution.