American government lawyers on Tuesday charged 49 peoplein a $25-million plot to reportedly buy admission to top colleges.The schools involved include Yale, Stanford and Georgetown University.Those charged include Hollywood actorsFelicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin,test administrators, business leaders and college coaches.Federal lawyers in Boston accused William Singerof organizing the reported plot.Singer owns the college counseling businessEdge College & Career Network,as well as an organization called The Key Worldwide Foundation.The lawyers said Singer offered people up to $75,000to take college entrance exams for students.They also accused him of paying college coachesto accept students as sports playerseven if they had never played the sport.In some cases, the lawyers said, Singer worked with parentsto create false academic and athletic successes for the students,including putting student's faceson the images of real athletes in action.U.S. attorney Andrew Lelling said the plot was set upto guarantee admissions to top colleges for students,in his words, "not on their merits, but through fraud."Lelling said Singer used Key Worldwide Foundationas a front for parents to pay for the services.He said parents paid between $100,000 to $6.5 millionfor the services.Some of the parents reportedly claimed the paymentas charitable donations to lower their taxes.Lelling said Singer then used the moneyto bribe college coaches and test administrators.Lelling said Yale University's women's soccer coach took $400,000to accept a student who did not even play soccer at a competitive level.That student's family reportedly paid Singer $1.2 million for the service.Lelling called the plot the biggest college admissions scamever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department.The accused parents reportedly sought to help their childrenget admitted to schools including University of California - Los Angeles,University of Southern California, and University of Texas.However, Lelling said the colleges were not involved in the plot.Singer admitted guilt to the charges.Lelling also charged 33 parents with involvement in the plot.They included actors Felicity Huffman,known for her role in the television show Desperate Housewives,and Lori Loughlin, who appearedin another long-running show called Full House.Among wealthy business leaders chargedwere Manuel Henriquez, the chief of Hercules Capital;Gamal Abdelaziz, president of Wynn Resorts Development;Gordon Caplan, head of the well-knowninternational law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher;and Gregory Abbott, founder and chairmanof International Dispensing Company.During a phone call with one wealthy parent,Singer reportedly said of his business:"What we do is help the wealthiest families in the U.S.get their kids into school..."