Mother who helped daughters cheat was “overprotective,” attorney says.
A Hillsborough, California, couple who paid $600,000 for a corrupt college admissions consultant to get their daughters admitted to UCLA and USC with phony athletic profiles and test scores avoided prison Tuesday for quickly pleading guilty and helping prosecutors nail dozens of others in the Varsity Blues admissions scandal.
“Alone among the parents charged in this sprawling conspiracy, they cooperated promptly with the government’s investigation and provided substantial assistance in its prosecution of their co-conspirators,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. The bombshell Varsity Blues case announced in March 2019 centered around the work of California-based college consultant William “Rick” Singer and his efforts to get the unexceptional progeny of the wealthy into elite universities through fraudulent test scores and athletic profiles.
Prosecutors have sought longer sentences for the two parents convicted at trial — 15 months for financier John Wilson and a year for casino magnate Gamal Abdelaziz — who are appealing their convictions at trial in which Bruce Isackson was a star witness. Bruce Isackson, 65, founded WP Investments, a Woodside commercial real estate investment, development and commercial property management company. He and his wife have four children.
The Isacksons sold more than 2,100 Facebook shares to funnel $600,000 through Singer’s sham charity, the Key Worldwide Foundation, purportedly to help educate the poor. Singer used the money instead to pay corrupt test proctors and coaches involved in the scheme.
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