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Country's most prestigious universities exploded into a national scandal after federal prosecutors filed fraud and money laundering charges against 50 people, including actresses felicity huffman, lori laughlyo and her husband. the mastermind? william singer, ceo of a college prep company. he coordinated with parents to either rig standardized test scores or bribe college coaches to accept their children as elite athletes, even if they hadn't played that sport. >> between roughly 2011 and 2018, parents played singer $225 million in total. >> huffman served 11 days in prison, but others like lo...

>> cutting a deal with prosecutors in 2008, the investment banker's luck ran out. >> epstein, held without bail. >> brought him up to 75 girls from eighth grade to ninth grade at school parties. >> reporter: however, there will be no trial. weeks later, epstein found hanging in his jail cell. the medical examiner ruled it a suicide. a judge gave victim as chance to speak at a hearing after epstein's death. >> he continued to rape me. i cried myself to sleep that night. >> reporter: number two. a scam involving some of the country's most prestigious universities, exploded into a national scanda...

Prestigious universities exploded into a national scandal after federal prosecutors filed fraud and money laundering charges including lori loughlin and felicity huffman. the master mind, william singer. he bribed college coaches or officials to accept their children as elite athletes even if they had never play that sport. >> wealthy parents paid singer about $25 million in total. some parents pleaded guilty including huffman who served 11 days in proison. 19 parents including lori loughlin continues to fight the charges. the number one in this misconduct story of 2019,

Negotiations are going on? if i remember correctly, they have her on tape. >> they do. prosecutors say they have wire taps. so they would have phone conversations with her and the alleged ring leader who's admitted to running the scam. william singer. so she's certainly looking at some very serious evidence against her if what prosecutors say holds true. >> so when the folks who plead guilty get sentenced, when will that be and what's the possible sentence range? >> a couple weeks from now, they will be having their formal sentencing hearings and they are all likely to get weeks, if not months...

Cohorts. brian: singer is the worst. cut a deal. he was soliciting this, too. >> absolutely. he should have gotten a lot more harsher penalty for the people who are more involved. and, look, here is another thing, brian. these people are now going to have felonies on their record. it would matter to us. we could lose our job. it doesn't matter to. they the judge has to send a message. they got to do some time. you can't send a message that privilege pays. brian: johnna, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. brian: a warning for his party, don't do it again ♪ yes i'm stuck in the middle...