IT'S THE MONEY, STUPID

Adam Wheeler, the former Harvard student who lied about his grades to get in, plagiarized others to stay in, and invented a perfect 1600 point SAT score to apply for scholarships, is being held behind bars without bail. "This defendant's actions cheated those who competed honestly and fairly for admissions and for the scholarships that this defendant fraudulently obtained," said Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone.

He isn't in jail because he cheated at Harvard, by the way - that would ordinarily have been handled some sort of internal disciplinary board - he is in jail because he fraudulently obtained $45,000 in grants. Now I see why they're so pissed off. It's the money! You can't just steal money from people and walk away, la-di-da, like this is the way the world works.

Apparently, however, this same principle does not apply to the Wall Street magnates who filched tens of billions of dollars from the American public and proceeded to walk away, la-di-da, with multi-million dollar bonuses for their trouble. I don't see District Attorney Leone turning his legal guns on them. True, they didn't lie about their SAT scores, but they did cause millions of Americans to lose their homes, their jobs, their lives. That ought to be worth just a little outrage, eh?