Mark Riddell, who is expected to appear in federal court on Wednesday, has been 'suspended indefinitely' from his role as the director of college test preparation at an elite boarding school and training academy in Florida.
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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