Who was acing tests for rich kids in the admissions scam? A pro tennis player and ‘really smart guy,’ feds say.

Andrew E. Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announces indictments in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal during a news conference on Tuesday in Boston. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow March 13 at 6:12 AM At 7:21 a.m. one day last December, an athletic man with a wide smile and a cleft chin, bronzed from the Florida sun, entered a test center in West Hollywood, Calif.

But the brains behind the operation were provided by Riddell, 36, who is expected to appear in federal court in Boston on Wednesday. He was the one actually filling in the bubbles, prosecutors allege, for the progeny of actresses, lawyers and business leaders — what investigators called a “catalogue of wealth and privilege.”

Riddell had no inside access at the exam companies that the parents implicated in the scheme so badly wanted to best. What he had was a Harvard degree and good test-taking skills. Sometimes, the students believed they were taking the tests for themselves. Other times, Riddell actively assisted them in the course of the exam, according to prosecutors. In the fall of 2015, authorities said, he sat side-by-side with a student as she completed the SAT at her high school in Belmont, Calif., providing her with answers, and later he “gloated” about getting away with the cheating.

Riddell, the school explained, “assists thousands of students in gaining admission to top American universities such as Stanford, Duke, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Chicago, and many other notable institutions.”

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Meadow Soprano got into Columbia

What a waste of a 'really smart guy'.

Not sure why all this is coming out now. Known for decades that people bought shady services and wrote big cheques for kids of the privileged to get into elite schools.

Too lazy to hire a private tutor? Hard work is out of fashion. Now we have another generation that thinks it can buy anything. Mom and dad showed them. 👍🏽 Lock them all up!

Probably should've known something was wrong when this guy showed up to take the test

So one thing Donald Trump is definitely NOT guilty of..

Stand up for truth. If you don't, then there is no truth to your existence. If you don't stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason why there is so much wrong in the world.” “Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.”

Paid Enrollments and Legacy Enrollments = White People's Affirmative Action

Same kids looking for a student debt forgiveness, gtfo

The obamas are involved in this monkey business and should be arrested and charged.

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Rich -- progressive -- kids

I wonder if the Obamas did it for their daughter.

Money money money...money💵. It's all about the Benjamins! You ain't got it, u don't playing.

Wow if he was so smart than why wasn’t he also in college ,, very fishy

take back the diplome

MANY of these are rich DEMOCRATS with a history of sanctimoniously lecturing people about 'equality'

The punishments handed down in the end for all this will be monetary fines - and the rich will buy their way out, just like normal. Its embarrassing for them, but they won't do time. They're white, rich, and therefore above the law that applies to the rest of us.

money, money, money, it's not funny.....

Is this a tennis pun or pure coincidence?

Wait, it was not Mike Ross?

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