Full Coverage: The college admissions scheme
Federal prosecutors in 2019 accused top CEOs, two Hollywood actresses and other parents of taking part in an audacious scheme to get their children into elite universities through fraud, bribes and lies. Of the parents named in the initial FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, more than half were accused of conspiring to bribe their way into USC. As of February, 2021, 30 parents had pleaded guilty and nine pleaded not guilty.
Former casino executive Gamal Abdelaziz received the stiffest sentence so far handed down in the college admissions bribery scandal.
Two wealthy parents have been convicted of buying their kids’ way into school as athletic recruits in the first case to go to trial in the college admissions cheating scandal.
The first trial in the sweeping college admissions bribery scandal will soon be in the hands of the jury.
Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli has been released from a California prison and is under home confinement following his imprisonment for his role in a college admissions bribery scheme.
In “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal,” director Chris Smith uses a documentary/dramatic hybrid to examine the sting that netted more than 50 indictments.
William McGlashan Jr., a former TPG executive charged with resorting to illegal means to raise his son’s chances of admission to elite colleges, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of aiding and abetting wire and honest services fraud.
A federal judge has denied Mossimo Giannulli’s request to serve out the rest of his prison term in the college admissions bribery scheme at home.
Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison to begin serving five-month sentence in college admissions scandal. His wife Lori Loughlin is already behind bars.
Martin Fox, a Texas youth sports coach who paid off university coaches and a test proctor in a cash-for-admissions scheme that defrauded some of the country’s most elite schools, was sentenced to three months in prison.
For fixing their daughters’ admission to USC, Lori Loughlin and J. Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced to two months and five months, respectively, in prison.
In a deal with the government, Mikaela Sanford admitted that she helped fabricate profiles that depicted the children of Rick Singer’s wealthy clients as decorated athletes.
Manuel Henriquez, who was accused of rigging his daughters’ exams and bribing a Georgetown tennis coach, is sentenced to six months in prison.
Karen Littlefair of Newport Beach admits paying $9,000 to have someone take her son’s online courses at Georgetown and gets five weeks in prison.
David Sidoo, a venture capitalist and former football player, paid $200,000 to fix his sons’ college entrance exams. He was sentenced Wednesday.
Diane Blake and Todd Blake will plead guilty before a judge at a future date, the U.S. attorney’s office says. The California couple had initially pleaded not guilty.
Lori Loughlin will plead guilty for her role in the college admissions scandal. She faces 2 months in prison.
A federal judge overseeing the college admissions case on Friday declined to dismiss charges against Lori Loughlin and her co-defendants.
Rick Singer told prosecutors that while he previously didn’t believe he was committing bribery, he now sees his scam was an illegal quid pro quo.
Jorge Salcedo, an ex-UCLA soccer coach charged in the admission of two students for bribes, will plead guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering.
A judge wrote Friday that Rick Singer’s notes raise “serious and disturbing” questions about the investigation into his college admissions scam.
A memo released in the college admissions case details a meeting between fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli and a counselor who raised concerns over his daughter’s rowing qualifications.
A former admissions official at USC will plead guilty to helping graduate students from China gain acceptance to the school by submitting doctored transcripts and fraudulent recommendation letters.
A Bay Area mother who conspired to fix her daughters’ test scores and buy a coach’s endorsement, is sentenced to seven months in prison in the college admissions scandal.
Lori Loughlin and co-defendants in the college admissions scandal ask to have the fraud, bribery and money laundering charges against them dismissed.
Two men imprisoned for their roles in the college admissions scandal asked a judge to release them from custody early, citing the coronavirus.
David Sidoo, a Canadian businessman and former football player charged with paying $200,000 to rig his sons’ exams, will plead guilty.
Douglas Hodge, the former chief executive of Pimco, plans to appeal his nine-month prison sentence in light of newly-disclosed notes taken by the scam’s ringleader, William “Rick” Singer.
A judge on Tuesday ordered USC to turn over sensitive internal documents to Robert Zangrillo, a Miami investor charged with securing his daughter’s admission to the school through fraud and bribery.
Notes by William “Rick” Singer become an issue as an Oct. 5 trial date is set for Lori Loughlin and other parents accused of defrauding USC.
Michelle Janavs, heiress to a frozen foods fortune, was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison in the college admissions scandal.
Douglas Hodge, once the leader of an international bond manager and now an admitted felon, was sentenced to nine months in prison Friday for paying bribes to get four of his children into USC and Georgetown as fake athletic recruits.
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College admissions scandal prosecutors recommend that a judge sentence four parents who have pleaded guilty to prison terms ranging from 18 to 26 months.
Prosecutors and lawyers for Xiaoning Sui, a Chinese mother detained in Madrid on charges of bribing her son’s way into UCLA, have proposed she spend no additional time in prison.
In November 2018, William “Rick” Singer picked up the phone in a government building in Boston and dialed a Los Angeles number. “Lori, it’s Rick Singer. How are you?”
Prosecutors disclosed emails on Wednesday showing Donna Heinel was tasked with probing the very fraud she allegedly perpetrated at USC.
Three of USC’s most senior athletic department officials, including Steve Lopes, the CFO and COO, will not continue in their roles.
Lawyers for parents charged in the case are seeking documents from USC that they believe will show the role donations play in admissions decisions.
New phone transcripts in the college admissions case provide a detailed look at how the scheme’s admitted mastermind, William “Rick” Singer, pitched his services to potential clients.
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Attorneys for William McGlashan Jr., charged in the college admissions scandal, say prosecutors are withholding evidence that could help exonerate him.
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s legal team want access to FBI documents they say would show the couple thought their donations were legitimate.
Igor Dvorskiy acknowledged role in college admissions scandal, saying he let ‘Rick’ Singer run a test-fixing scam out of his West Hollywood school.
Parents who pleaded not guilty faced additional charges, in order to apply pressure to change their plea.
Jeffrey Bizzack watched in March as 33 parents were arrested and charged with crimes he knew he had committed. He quit his job, hired lawyers and told the government he wanted to turn himself in.
Jane Buckingham wrote “The Modern Girl’s Guide to Motherhood” in 2006. A decade later, she would conspire to fix her son’s ACT exams.
Eleven parents, including Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, now face an added bribery charge in the college admissions case.
College admissions scandal: Lori Loughlin faces choice as other parents plead guilty and her daughters exit USC
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Douglas Hodge reversed course after prosecutors warned parents who had maintained their innocence that they could face a charge of federal program bribery.
Robert Flaxman, a California real estate developer, was sentenced to a month in prison for rigging his daughter’s test scores
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Federal prosecutors are ratcheting up pressure on parents who have maintained their innocence in the college admissions scandal with a warning they intend to file additional criminal charges as early as next week.
Peter Jan Sartorio, a 54-year-old food entrepreneur from the Bay Area, was the latest parent in the college admissions scandal case to be sentenced.
Douglas Hodge, the former chief executive of investment giant Pimco, is expected to plead guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering, federal prosecutors in Boston said Thursday.
Marjorie Klapper of Menlo Park, Calif., admitted she paid $15,000 to William “Rick” Singer, a Newport Beach college admissions consultant.
Felicity Huffman went to a prison in Northern California where she will spend two weeks for conspiring to rig her daughter’s college entrance exams.
Agustin Huneeus Jr., a California winemaker, was sentenced to prison for paying to rig his daughter’s school entrance exams and trying to sneak her into USC as a bogus athlete.
The head of a West Hollywood prep school flips and is likely to back up accusations of a criminal conspiracy in the college admissions scandal.
In a bid to evade prison, L.A. business exec Stephen Semprevivo claimed he was a victim of William “Rick” Singer’s far-reaching scheme. It didn’t work.
Prosecutors in the admissions scandal cases shifted arguments, telling a judge that parents’ behavior — not how much they paid — should determine prison time.
Xiaoning Sui was arrested by Spanish authorities Monday night and charged with paying William “Rick” Singer to ensure her son was admitted to UCLA.
“I have always been prepared to accept whatever punishment Judge Talwani imposed. I broke the law,” Huffman said in a statement after being sentenced to 14 days in jail.
The ruling is a narrow victory for prosecutors who wanted a heavier penalty but argued that some amount time behind bars for Huffman and other parents can be “the only leveler” against their money and influence.
An internal investigation at UCLA uncovered key elements of William “Rick” Singer’s college admissions scheme in 2014.
A judge in Boston prepares to sentence parents in the college admissions cheating scandal.
Until now, Felicity Huffman has said virtually nothing of why she paid a college admissions consultant $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT score.
Prosecutors want Felicity Huffman to get a one-month prison sentence for her role in the college admissions case, calling her dealings with mastermind William “Rick” Singer “deliberate and manifestly criminal.”
College admissions scandal: USC officials discussed how much parents would donate when consider admissions of children, records show
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, can continue using a law firm that recently represented USC, a judge rules.
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USC is asking a judge to quash a subpoena from a father accused of getting his daughter into the school through fraud and bribery.
College admissions scandal: A $100,000 bribe and help from Rick Singer got him a soccer scholarship to UCLA. But he didn’t play.
Years before William “Rick” Singer’s college admissions scandal was uncovered, FBI agents in South Florida nearly discovered his scam.
As actress Felicity Huffman awaits sentencing on a charge of fraud conspiracy, her colleagues on Netflix’s “Otherhood” movie speak out on her behalf.
Shortly after federal authorities took down a national college admissions scam in March, officials at USC launched their own investigation with emails to dozens of students.
A Southern California father has admitted to paying $250,000 to get his son into USC as a bogus volleyball player and will plead guilty to fraud conspiracy, his attorney and prosecutors say, as the list of wealthy and powerful parents charged in a federal investigation into college admissions fraud grew for the first time Friday since William “Rick” Singer’s decadelong scheme was uncovered in March.
An accountant who laundered bribes and a collegiate soccer coach who pocketed them pleaded guilty in Boston on Thursday to racketeering conspiracy, acknowledging they played key roles in a scheme that defrauded some of the country’s most prestigious universities.
Five years before he would be charged with fraud conspiracy, with his name included in a parade of actresses, financiers and executives accused of ripping off some of the country’s top colleges, Toby MacFarlane was nearly undone by an email.
The wealthy couple willing to pay him millions lived in Beijing, but William “Rick” Singer needed only to go to Pasadena to find them.
The fate of John Vandemoer, the former sailing coach at Stanford University who participated in the college admissions scandal, will take one of several very different turns Wednesday when he is sentenced in a Boston courtroom.
The college admissions scandal has shaken the country’s trust in higher education and corroborated a “national fear” that the process can be rigged to favor the rich, prosecutors wrote in arguing why a coach mired in the scandal should go to prison.
USC told lawyers for actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, J.
Federal investigators are scrutinizing whether Pat Haden, the former USC athletic director, was involved in the college admissions bribery and cheating scheme carried out by William “Rick” Singer, according to a source with knowledge of the case.
A former USC soccer coach will plead guilty and cooperate with the investigation that implicated him in a college admissions scheme that sneaked the children of wealthy families into top universities by using fake athletic credentials and bribes, according to court documents filed Monday.
Lori Loughlin has vowed to fight charges in the college admissions scandal.
Steven Masera, the California accountant accused of handling the books for a test-fixing and bribery scheme that defrauded some of the country’s top universities, will plead guilty to racketeering conspiracy and has agreed to cooperate with investigators, according to court documents unsealed Friday.
Stephanie Ellsworth had a problem.
William “Rick” Singer was well into orchestrating an elaborate bribery and cheating scheme to slip his clients’ children into elite colleges when he sat down for a deposition in Washington, D.C., in 2016.
As Marcia and Gregory Abbott’s daughter prepared to take her SAT subject tests last August, she asked if the tall blond man who was “so sweet” when proctoring an earlier exam in West Hollywood would be there again.
Six months ago, federal agents watched Gordon Caplan and his daughter walk into a West Hollywood school where a 36-year-old man would fix the girl’s college entrance exam.
More than a year before the college admissions scandal investigation began, Georgetown University “discovered irregularities” in the athletic credentials of two tennis recruits, initiated a secret investigation and eventually forced coach Gordon Ernst to resign, court records show.
Some figures in the college admissions scandal have vowed to fight federal charges, saying they did nothing wrong.
Laura Janke, a former USC soccer coach who is cooperating with a federal investigation into college admissions fraud, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Boston to a racketeering conspiracy charge.
As she pleaded guilty for her role in the college admissions scandal Monday, a tearful Felicity Huffman tried to explain what motivated her.
Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom Monday to a fraud conspiracy charge for her role in a brazen test-fixing and bribery scheme that has sent the actress’ reputation and career prospects tumbling.
Felicity Huffman formally pleaded guilty Monday to her role in the college admissions scandal.
Actress Lori Loughlin has lost acting gigs and been the subject of public wrath after being charged in the college admissions scandal.
A Los Angeles executive who paid $400,000 to secure his son’s spot at Georgetown as a tennis recruit pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraud charges as part of a sweeping college admissions scandal that has ensnared dozens of wealthy parents and sent shock waves through some of the country’s most elite educational institutions.
A former Stanford University student whose parents paid $6.5 million to secure her admission to the prestigious school has not been charged with a crime in the college admissions scandal.
Federal prosecutors have sent a letter to a former Stanford student whose parents paid $6.5 million to the mastermind of the college admissions scheme informing her she is a possible target of their investigation, a person familiar with the investigation said.
The mother of a former Stanford student acknowledged Thursday that she paid $6.5 million to the man at the heart of the college admissions scandal, but said she was tricked into believing the seven-figure sum would go toward scholarships, university salaries and programs for needy students.
Yusi Zhao’s mother says she thought she was helping needy students at Stanford — not buying her daughter’s admission — when she paid $6.5 million into a foundation controlled by college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer.
The family of a Chinese student admitted to Stanford paid $6.5 million to the man at the heart of the college admissions scandal, whom they met through a Morgan Stanley financial advisor, sources familiar with the case told The Times.
A Northern California couple who secured their daughters’ spots at UCLA and USC with bribes and rigged tests pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud and money laundering offenses, the first parents to admit their guilt before a judge in an investigation that has sent shivers through circles of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood and some of the country’s most elite universities.
William “Rick” Singer stepped into a conference room at a Newport Beach Marriott one morning last January to hear how his master plan was progressing.
Last month, the scheme was laid bare: USC, and at least half a dozen top universities, had been breached by a multiyear conspiracy that used bribes, rigged tests and at least a few Photoshopped applications to slip the children of wealthy and influential families past admissions processes that grow more selective every year.
From the beginning, USC has played a central role in the college admissions scandal.
FBI agents executed warrants last month to seize up to $2.7 million from bank accounts controlled by six people charged in the college admissions scandal, including former USC and UCLA employees, according to documents unsealed in U.S.
Two more people will plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, including a former USC soccer coach who has agreed to cooperate with the government’s widening investigation, federal authorities said Tuesday.
When actress Felicity Huffman announced she would plead guilty to charges related to the college admissions scandal, she expressed unwavering remorse for her actions.
Videos of Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman become legal battleground in college admissions scandal
Video footage of Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin has become part of a legal battle in the college admissions scandal, with prosecutors asking a judge to restrict access to evidence they will begin turning over to defense attorneys.
Prosecutors in the college admissions scandal are in Los Angeles this week as they continue to widen their investigation in the far-reaching scam.
Federal prosecutors from Boston have interviewed people in Los Angeles this week, asking about additional students whose parents have not been charged in the college admissions scandal, people familiar with the matter told The Times.
UCLA needs 103 days to turn over emails between soccer coaches and those indicted in college scandal
Turning over all of the emails exchanged between three UCLA coaches and five people indicted by federal prosecutors for conspiring to defraud top-ranked universities will take 103 days, UCLA record-keepers say.
To the editor: The admissions scandals at USC and UCLA are different.
No one was looking at Bruce Isackson.
Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer J.
A Palo Alto couple accused of paying $25,000 to rig their son’s college entrance exam asked a federal judge this week to dismiss the indictment against them, claiming there was no conspiracy among the parents entangled in the college admissions scandal.
The University of Southern California has, to its shame, been at the center of the scandal that led last month to the arrest of more than a dozen people and forced a soul-searching reexamination of long-standing rules and traditions regarding college admissions.
The responses were curious then. They sound downright suspicious now.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer J.
In Boston to face charges in the college admissions scandal two weeks ago, actress Lori Loughlin waved at fans, shook the hands of prosecutors and signed autographs.
Like thousands of students each year, the high school senior hoped to secure a coveted spot in the UCLA freshman class.
To his clientele of financiers, vintners, heiresses and actresses, William “Rick” Singer sold guarantees.
Actress Lori Loughlin and 15 other parents implicated in the college admissions scandal have been indicted on charges of money laundering and fraud conspiracy, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
In announcing that she would plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, Felicity Huffman said she “will accept the consequences that stem from those actions.”
Prosecutors moved the college admissions scandal into a new chapter Monday, announcing that actress Felicity Huffman and more than a dozen other wealthy parents charged with participating in the scam have agreed to plead guilty.
Stanford University has kicked out a student whose application allegedly contained false information as fallout continues from the sweeping college admissions cheating scandal that has ensnared top universities across the country.
Some wealthy parents cut deals, others fight on in college admissions scandal. A look at what’s next
In a busy week in the college admissions scandal, some accused parents have decided to cooperate with prosecutors.
A high-profile attorney who was charged in the college admissions scandal said Friday he will plead guilty and defended his teenage daughter in a public statement, saying she was unaware of the scheme and “has been hurt the most by it.”
The popping flash bulbs, scrum of reporters and gawking onlookers that greeted actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin Wednesday had the makings of a red carpet appearance.
In yet another sign of upheaval at USC, two top administrators announced Tuesday that they were leaving their posts.
Thirteen parents accused in a college admissions scheme, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, are scheduled to appear for the first time in federal court in Boston on Wednesday, where a judge will set the conditions of their release.
A media circus is expected in federal court in Boston on Wednesday when the two most high-profile defendants in the college admissions scandal — Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — appear in court.
Morrie Tobin was in Boston to cut the deal of his life. It was early April last year.
They filed into court, one after the other — the casino magnate, the Napa Valley vintner, the Hot Pocket heiress — having braved the Boston cold and a line of cameras and reporters outside the courthouse doors, to stand before a judge and have their rights to travel, to speak with codefendants and to change their residences curtailed or revoked.
They have been the objects of rage, mockery and countless articles. Some have already lost jobs.
Rudy Meredith, the former Yale women’s soccer coach, admitted in federal court in Boston Thursday to pocketing bribes from parents and pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy.
Outraged by widespread allegations of cheating in the college admissions process, California lawmakers on Thursday proposed a sweeping package of bills aimed at closing loopholes that officials said gave the children of wealthy parents a side door into elite universities.
Legal experts have said some of the parents accused in the far-reaching college admissions scandal have an uphill battle because of the evidence provided by the mastermind of the scheme, who is cooperating with authorities.
A major Silicon Valley venture capital firm broke ties with its founder after he informed partners that the mastermind of the sweeping college admissions scandal helped get his son into college.
A former top private equity executive charged in the college admissions scandal denies he paid any bribe to get his son into USC using a “side door” and says the boy has a legitimate learning disability that warranted special testing provisions.
A federal grand jury has indicted a Palo Alto couple on charges they hired William “Rick” Singer, the confessed ringleader of a college admissions cheating scam, to rig their son’s college entrance exam, according to court records filed Tuesday.
Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Giannulli, daughters of actress Lori Loughlin, remain enrolled at USC amid a sweeping college admissions scandal that has ensnared the elite private university along with other top colleges across the country, according to a USC spokesperson.
Defendants in the sweeping college admissions cheating scandal began appearing in Boston court amid growing questions about how many would cooperate with authorities and which other parents could get swept up in the scandal.
Yale University has rescinded the admission of a student in connection with the far-reaching college admissions scandal, the university confirmed Monday.
As the college admissions scandal investigation widens, more parents are coming under scrutiny.
Of the many outrageous allegations revealed by federal prosecutors in the college cheating scandal, one stands out.
The college admissions bribery case has left people fuming.
The universities caught up in the fraudulent-admissions scandal are undoubtedly looking at ways to prevent such problems in the future, focusing in many cases on their athletic departments, where coaches in soccer and water polo and other sports allegedly took bribes from wealthy parents hoping to secure admission for their children.
To the editor: Let’s not be so hard on the kids.
UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero expressed disgust over the recent admissions scandal that rocked his school in his first public comments about the ordeal Friday and said steps were being taken to ensure it never happened again.
For the children of the well-off and well-educated, cultivating the hallmarks of an outstanding college application starts early.
In the latest episode of the “Arrive Early, Leave Late” podcast, columnist Bill Plaschke discusses why he feels so strongly that USC needs to fire Lynn Swann following a second scandal that drew an FBI investigation under the athletic director’s watch.
On the mantel in a South Los Angeles home, the lovingly arranged keepsakes reflect a family’s pride.
The next move in the college admissions scandal will unfold in a Boston federal courtroom April 3, when Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and other defendants are set to appear in court.
As chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carol L.
With their parents now facing criminal charges, the children at the center of the college cheating scandal face an uncertain future.
UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo resigned in the wake of his alleged involvement in accepting $200,000 in bribes to help enroll two players using fake athletic profiles, an athletic department official confirmed Thursday.
When allegations of a massive college admissions corruption scandal broke last week, court documents left out one important detail: the identity of the coach at the University of San Diego accused of accepting bribes.
Gordon Caplan had a problem.
Hey, USC, here’s your chance. With the announcement Wednesday that Carol L.
On the latest episode of the “Arrive Early, Leave Late” podcast, USC writer Brady McCollough and enterprise reporter Nathan Fenno delve into the college admissions scandal that has led to the indictment of dozens of people, including four with ties to the Trojans.
The wealthy parents accused in the sweeping college admissions cheating scandal have been pilloried, and some have lost jobs.
The federal investigators named their landmark case “Operation Varsity Blues” as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the hit late-’90s film depicting an obsessed football culture in small-town Texas.
With two University of California campuses mired in the college admissions scandal, a leading state legislator on Tuesday urged officials to quickly revoke degrees and expel students admitted under fraudulent circumstances.
Lauren Isackson’s athletic credentials were dwarfed by those of her teammates.
Federal prosecutors are seeking potential deals with some of the wealthy parents charged in the sweeping college admissions scandal as investigators continue to broaden the case, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.
UC Berkeley has launched an investigation into a former member of the men’s rowing team whose father was named in a federal indictment that exposed an elaborate college admissions scam.
There have long been serious concerns about the fairness and equity of the admissions process to elite universities.
Undergraduate tuition at USC will total $57,256 in the coming school year, a 3.5% increase from the previous year, the university announced Monday.
The parents and others accused of cheating and bribing officials to get their kids into elite colleges are expected to face charges in federal court in the coming weeks.
Tax breaks resulting from charitable donations to universities and colleges could be receiving new scrutiny in Washington after the largest admissions cheating scandal in U.S. history.
Speaking as someone who suffered through the rigors and travails of the college admissions process — for myself and my two children — I don’t have any difficulty finding the answer to the burning question of what should happen to the kids who got into college via fraud.
Far from the California epicenter of the massive college cheating scandal, Matt McGann has followed the news with more than casual concern.
On Saturday morning at the Boyle Heights Beat, a student-run journalism operation, the hot topic was the college entrance cheating scandal and how to craft stories about it for the group’s newspaper and radio show.
The college admissions cheating scandal that was revealed this week is shaping up to have long-term ramifications for both the parents accused in the scheme and the large world of getting into college. • Some of the parents who are accused of cheating to get their children into elite schools are facing civil lawsuits in addition to federal criminal charges.
USC athletic director Lynn Swann was in bed Tuesday when he received the call about the college admissions bribery scandal that would rock USC and several other schools around the nation.
William “Rick” Singer ran a tight operation.
The college cheating scandal has rocked elite sections of California and beyond, with Silicon Valley business leaders, CEOs, Hollywood actresses, a best-selling self-help author and a famed fashion designer all swept up.
USC, reeling from the exposure of a college admissions scheme with deep ties to the university, has announced a variety of measures aimed at addressing the scandal.
We’re often told that trust is a hard quality to develop, and the easiest of all to lose.
Sephora has ended its brand partnership with social-media influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli, the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin and designer Mossimo Giannulli, in wake of a college admissions scandal enveloping her and her parents.
Hallmark has severed ties with actress Lori Loughlin after she was arrested for her alleged participation in an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges.
It was morning and the campus was still quiet when Vanessa Miranda began to shout, trying her best to draw customers: “Esquiii-te!
Stanford was out of the question for me.
A key tip that led to what authorities describe as the largest college admissions cheating scandal ever came from a Los Angeles parent who was under investigation in an unrelated securities case, according to a law enforcement source.
The college admissions cheating scandal is roiling some of Southern California’s most elite prep schools, leading to resignations and questions as federal prosecutors seek student records from the institutions.
Two of the parents charged in connection with the wide-reaching college admissions cheating scandal are no longer on Sage Hill School’s board of trustees.
TPG Growth managing partner Bill McGlashan has been fired from the prominent private equity firm after allegations that he participated in a massive college admissions cheating scheme to get his son accepted at USC.
When federal prosecutors revealed a national investigation into fraudulent college admissions, it probably shouldn’t have come as a surprise that USC was at the epicenter of the scheme.
Two Stanford University students on Wednesday filed a federal class-action lawsuit against eight colleges ensnared in the largest college admissions scandal ever prosecuted, alleging that the rigged system denied them a fair chance to matriculate at the elite institutions and could tarnish their degrees.
The self-styled “master coach” warned parents that in the scramble for a spot at an elite university, their children would hardly stand out without his help.
Their parents face criminal charges, with federal prosecutors alleging massive fraud to get them into some of America’s most elite schools.
A college admissions scandal caught actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, a fashion designer, lawyers, CEOs and other wealthy families in an elaborate scheme to pay top dollar to ensure their kids got into elite universities.
Professor Homayoun Zadeh was an institution at USC’s dental school, rising over a four-decade academic career from student to lab director to the chair of the periodontology department.
A new definition of “chutzpah”: Bribing a coach to get your unathletic child into an elite university and paying astronomical sums of money to have someone else take your kid’s college entrance exam, then declaring the bribes charitable contributions.
When Lynn Swann was hired out of nowhere to become USC’s athletic director in April 2016, his lack of major college administrative experience was brushed away with a promise.
The summer of 2011 was a fascinating time to be working in the USC athletic department.
University of California President Janet Napolitano has ordered an internal investigation into any UC involvement in the nationwide college admissions scandal.
When it came to getting their daughters into college, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer J.
For years, Hollywood turned to marketing guru Jane Buckingham to find out what kids really want, drawing on her extensive expertise on the youth zeitgeist.
Shortly after dawn one day last month, a tanned, golden-haired college prep coach from Florida strolled into a West Hollywood test center with instructions to help the daughter of a California businesswoman score high marks on her college entrance exam.
In a federal court Tuesday afternoon, Felicity Huffman stood in front of a magistrate to answer charges that she took part in an audacious scheme to get her child into an elite university through fraud.
Well, this is awkward.
The “Full House” jokes were many on Tuesday night after news broke earlier in the day that dozens of parents, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were charged with allegedly paying bribes to get their children admitted into elite colleges.
Actress Lori Loughlin was released on $1-million bail Wednesday after being taken into custody as part of a sweeping college admissions corruption scandal.
In allegations that sent shock waves through academia, federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused top CEOs, two Hollywood actresses and a legendary fashion designer of taking part in an audacious scheme to get their children into elite universities through fraud, bribes and lies.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused a Newport Beach college admissions company of being at the center of a wide-reaching scheme to get the children of the rich and famous into elite universities through bribery and cheating.
They include Hollywood actresses, former CEOs, a famed parenting book writer, a fashion icon, a Newport Beach college counselor and university athletic officials.
Students and parents have long suspected that money and connections help win access to top-tier colleges.
The scheme, which allegedly began in 2011, centered on the owner of a for-profit Newport Beach college admissions company that wealthy parents are accused of paying to help their children cheat on college entrance exams and to falsify athletic recor
A prominent Napa Valley vintner worked feverishly last fall to secure his daughter’s admission to USC as a water polo recruit.
Why did it have to be Felicity Huffman?
William “Rick” Singer touted his charity as a way to open doors for disadvantaged students who grew up surrounded by gang violence.
We’ve been hearing about it for years. The system is rigged.
When Felicity Huffman opened the door to her Los Angeles home at 6 a.m.
Federal authorities arrested five California residents on Tuesday, accusing them of helping Chinese nationals obtain student visas by taking their English proficiency tests for them.
The federal investigation into a massive cheating scandal in which prominent actors and business leaders got their children into elite universities included seeking records from several prominent Southern California prep schools, according to two sources familiar with the probe.
The self-described “master coach” warned parents that in the scrabble for a spot at an elite university, their children would hardly stand out without his help.
Two USC athletic department employees — a high-ranking administrator and a legendary head coach — were fired Tuesday after being indicted in federal court in Massachusetts for their alleged roles in a racketeering conspiracy that helped students get into elite colleges and universities by falsely designating them as recruited athletes.
Longtime UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo was placed on leave by the school Tuesday morning after being indicted as part of a widespread corruption scheme involving the admission of students to top universities using falsified test scores and athletic profiles.
Federal prosecutors say their investigation dubbed Operation Varsity Blues blows the lid off an audacious college admissions fraud scheme aimed at getting the children of the rich and powerful into elite universities.
Federal prosecutors have indicted dozens of people, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, in an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges.
Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among the dozens indicted by federal prosecutors Tuesday in connection with an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges.
Among those ensnared in an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges are the daughters of “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin and Mossimo clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli.
How innocent they appear in retrospect, those days when it felt as if athletic director Lynn Swann’s refusal to fire football coach Clay Helton marked a new low point for USC’s athletic department.
Dozens of individuals were allegedly involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday indicted dozens of people — including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — in connection with an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges.
