Just when you though the college admissions cheating scandal couldn’t get any dumber, TMZ revealed that Olivia Jade, the “influencer” daughter of actress Lori Loughlin, was on the yacht of Rick Caruso, the chairman of USC’s Board of Trustees, as the Department of Justice initiated their RICO crackdown and issued 50 indictments, including of Loughlin and Jade’s father, Mossimo Giannulli.

As a sheer tableau vivant, the teenage pseudo-celebrity who made her name hawking cheap sponsored content on a tacky Instagram account spending spring break in the Bahamas on the yacht of a board chairman of a school she bribed her way into is pristinely infuriating enough. But it’s even worse if you understand who Rick Caruso is and why his past year of performance exemplifies the core corruption corroding USC from the top down.