BREAKING: Rick Singer, the man behind the college admissions bribery scandal, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and must pay millions of dollars in restitution and forfeitures.
to three months or less of prison time, with many serving no time at all.
Singer pleaded guilty in 2019 to charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to defraud the United States. He raked in some $25 million by selling what he liked to call"a side door" into elite institutions such as Yale University, Georgetown University and the University of Southern California to dozens of clients.
The scheme involved bribing college coaches to take students as athletic recruits, regardless if they were mediocre or had never even played the sport. Singer created completely fake résumés and inserted photographs of students' faces onto images of real athletes. His services also included fixing students' wrong answers on college admissions tests or having someone else sit for the students to take the test in their place.
He secretly recorded hundreds of phone calls with some 30 co-conspirators, getting them to incriminate themselves by acknowledging the payments and bribes they paid. His ruse was to tell them that the IRS was auditing the fake charitable foundation that he used to launder bribe money.
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