The administrator of a small West Hollywood school where the rich and powerful went to rig their children’s college entrance exams pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom Wednesday to conspiracy to commit racketeering.
“I can make scores happen,” Singer boasted to a Greenwich lawyer on a wiretapped phone call, “and nobody on the planet can get scores to happen.” His secret: He arranged for his clients’ children to take their exams at Dvorskiy’s West Hollywood College Preparatory School, where Dvorskiy allowed Singer’s Harvard-educated accomplice, Mark Riddell, to either feed them the answers or correct their tests once they’d finished.
Dvorskiy has also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify at trial, if called. The government will likely try to use Dvorskiy to buttress its argument that Singer and his clientele were entangled in a single criminal conspiracy, with the aim of defrauding the companies that administer the SAT and ACT exams of their employees’ honest work.
If prosecutors decide Dvorskiy supplied them with useful information or testimony, they have agreed to recommend a sentence below the range laid out in his plea deal, which calls for 24 to 30 months in prison. He has also agreed to forfeit $149,540 — the sum he collected from the scheme, prosecutors say.Dvorskiy, who was arrested in March, initially pleaded not guilty. He reversed his plea last month.
I predict some of these affluent parents will find the community service harder to handle than the prison time. What is the penalty if they don’t obey all of the comm. service requirements. Remember Chris Brown’s CS problems.
Why isn’t Dvorskiy’s mother charged? Doesn’t she own the school? Have all of the parents of the kids who took crooked SATs at this location been charged?
MatthewOrmseth thanks for the story.
The True ‘Crime’ is that “ACT”s and “SAT”s are so inherently “Rigged” that the Admission Scandal is merely as if You were complaining that someone stole Money from ‘Al Capone’; You can take the side of ‘Al Capone’ to prosecute the Thief, but: ‘Al Capone’ remains “At Large.”
In a Belstaff knock off, no less.