ALREADY SENTENCED:
Robert FLAXMAN - (parent) - pled guilty
paid $75,000 to have a test proctor feed his daughter answers on her ACT exam in 2016 and sought a tax deduction for the bribe. Paid a consultant $250,000 to use fake documents to get his son into the USD, but those allegations were not pursued.
Sentence: 1 month in prison, 1 year of supervised release, 250 hours of community service, Fine of $50,000
Marjorie KLAPPER - (parent) - pled guilty
Paid $15,000 to rig her son's ACT exam in 2017. She's also accused of falsely listing her son as African American/Hispanic on college applications to increase his chances of getting admitted.
Sentence: 3 weeks in prison, 1 year of supervised release, 250 hours of community service, Fine of $9,500
Peter Jan SARTORIO - (parent) - pled guilty
Paid $15,000 to have a test proctor correct his daughter's answers on an ACT test
Sentence: no prison, 1 year of probation, 250 hours of community service, Fine of $9,500
Gregory ABBOTT & Marcia ABBOTT - (parents) - pled guilty
Paid $50,000 to have a test proctor correct their daughter’s ACT exam answers, along with $75,000 to rig her SAT subject tests
Sentence: Gregory: 1 month in prison; 1 year of supervised release; 250 hours of community service; $45,000 fine
Sentence: Marcia: 1 month in prison; 1 year of supervised release; 250 hours of community service; $45,000 fine
Agustin HUNEEUS Jr. - (parent) - pled guilty
Paid $50,000 to cheat on his daughter’s SAT exam. He also paid $50,000 in bribes — and agreed to pay a further $200,000 — to get her into USC as a purported water polo recruit. He actively pursued the scam for 2 years, and told his daughter to have a “shut-your-trap mentality” about it.
Sentence: 5 months in prison; 2 years of supervised release; 500 hours of community service; $100,000 fine
Gordon CAPLAN - (parent) - pled guilty
Paid $75,000, set up to be tax deductible, flew his daughter out to Southern California to take the ACT exam at a testing center where people were placed to help correct it; sent his daughter to see a doctor and was told to ‘play stupid’ so that she could get the doctor to claim a disability which would allow her more time to take the exam.
Sentence: 1 month in prison; 1 year of supervised release; 250 hours of community service; $50,000 fine, and agreed to a suspension of his law license while the NY Bar investigates.
Devin SLOANE - (parent) - pled guilty
Funneled more than $250,000 to bribe a coach at USC; staged photos and paid to have his son's image photo-shopped into water polo pictures
Sentence: 4 months in prison; 2 years of supervised release; 500 hours of community service; $95,000 fine
Felicity HUFFMAN - (parent) - pled guilty
Paid $15,000 to facilitate cheating for her daughter on the SATs
Sentence: 14 days in prison; 1 year of supervised release; 250 hours of community service; $30,000 fine
Rudolph “Rudy” MEREDITH - former soccer coach at Yale - pled guilty
Accepted bribes of almost $1,000,000 to facilitate the admission of 2 students to Yale as recruited soccer athletes.
Agreed to cooperate with the government's investigation. There is no sentencing hearing scheduled at this time.
John VANDEMOER - former Stanford sailing coach - pled guilty
Arranging bribes of $110,000 and $160,000 to the sailing program and then designating two applicants, who had no sailing experience, as sailing recruits.
Sentence: 1 day incarceration (deemed served); 2 years of supervised release with the first 6 months to be served in home detention; $10,000 fine
