BOSTON \u2013 A California woman became the ninth parent to be sentenced in connection with the college admissions case.<\/p>\n
Marjorie Klapper, 50, of Menlo Park, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to three weeks in prison, one year of supervised release, ordered to complete 250 hours of community service and to pay a fine of $9,500. In May 2019, Klapper pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.<\/p>\n
The government recommended a sentence of four months in prison, one year of supervised release and a fine of $20,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis defendant paid $15,000 to arrange for her son to cheat on the ACT and then falsely claimed on his college applications that he was Black or Latino,\u201d said United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling. \u201cMs. Klapper thereby not only corrupted the standardized testing system, but also specifically victimized the real minority applicants already fighting for admission to elite schools. We respectfully disagree that a three-week sentence is a sufficient sanction for this misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beginning in the 2017, Klapper conspired with William \u201cRick\u201d Singer and others to have her son\u2019s ACT exam corrected, thereby fraudulently inflating the score. As part of the scheme, Klapper took steps to secure extended time for her son to take the ACT and to take the exam at a test center in West Hollywood that Singer \u201ccontrolled\u201d through the center\u2019s corrupt administrator, Igor Dvorskiy. After Klapper\u2019s son completed the exam on Oct. 28, 2017, co-conspirator Mark Riddell corrected his answers. As a result of the cheating scheme, Klapper\u2019s son received a score of 30 out of 36 on the exam. In November 2017, Klapper made a purported charitable donation of $15,000 to Singer\u2019s sham charity, Key Worldwide Foundation to pay for the fraud.<\/p>\n
In addition, Klapper conspired with Singer to falsify her son\u2019s college applications by claiming that he was African-American and of Hispanic\/Latino origin in an attempt to further improve his odds of admission by claiming minority status. Klapper also falsely represented that neither she nor her husband had attended college in order to bolster her son\u2019s college prospects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BOSTON \u2013 A California woman became the ninth parent to be sentenced in connection with the college admissions case. Marjorie Klapper, 50, of Menlo Park, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to three weeks in prison, one year of supervised release, ordered to complete 250 hours of community service and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":133318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n