In all, 50 people were charged in the criminal investigation that went by
the name “Operation Varsity Blues.” Those arrested include two SAT/ACT
administrators, one exam proctor, nine coaches at elite schools, one
college administrator and 33 parents, according to Andrew Lelling, the
US attorney for Massachusetts....
FBI Special Agent Joseph Bonavolonta said the parents spent anywhere from
$200,000 to $6.5 million to guarantee admissions for their children.
Coaches from Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California,
Wake Forest and Georgetown, among others, are implicated in the case.
The extensive case involved arrests in six states across the country.
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Wealthy parents, actresses, coaches, among those charged in massive college
cheating admission scandal, federal prosecutors say
According to Lelling, the ringleader of the scam is William Singer, owner of a
college counseling service called Key Worldwide Foundation and a company
called Edge College & Career Network. Singer allegedly accepted bribes
totaling $25 million from parents between 2011 and 2018 “to guarantee their
children’s admission to elite schools,” Lelling said.
Singer of Newport Beach, California, pleaded guilty in a Boston federal
court on Tuesday on charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering
conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of
justice, Lelling said.