An Official List of Everyone Who Was Sentenced in the College Admissions Scandal
- 1/26
2) Lori Loughlin
Pretty much everyone knows by now about the Full House star paying half a million dollars to get her daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose into USC. She was sentenced to two months in prison, had to pay a $150,000 fine, do 100 hours community service, and will be under supervised release for two years. She served her sentence last year and got out in December.
- 2/26
1) Felicity Huffman
The Desperate Housewives Star was the first parent sentenced in the entire scandal. She paid $15,000 to get her daughter Sophia's SAT answers changed, and then disguised the payment as a donation to charity. She got a 14-day prison sentence, a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service, and one year of supervised release.
- 3/26
3) Massimo Giannulli
Loughlin's husband was also involved in the scandal and he got an even longer sentence. He got five months in prison (which he's currently serving), had to pay a $500,000 fine, do 250 hours of community service, and he'll be on supervised release for two years.
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- 4/26
4) Douglas Hodge
The former CEO of Pacific Investment Management Company paid more than $500,000 to get his daughter into USC. According to the New York Times, he was sentenced to nine months in prison for it.
- 5/26
5) Gordon Caplan
The Connecticut lawyer paid $75,000 to have daughter’s ACT answers fixed, earning him eight months in jail. He was put on leave from his Manhattan law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before receiving a two-year suspension from practicing law, according to Law.com.
- 6/26
6) Niki Williams
Williams was a college entrance exam administrator who took bribes from ringleader Rick Singer to falsify test results. She also let the scandal's co-conspirator Mark Riddell sit in on the exams to help students or even correct their answers after they were done. She was sentenced to one year of probation and was ordered to forfeit $12,500 of her illegal earnings.
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- 7/26
7) David Sidoo
The scandal didn't just involved Americans. David Sidoo, from Vancouver, British Columbia, paid $100,000 to have someone take his two sons' SAT exams. He was sentenced to 90 days in prison, according to CBC.
- 8/26
8) Jane Buckingham
This LA marketing executive paid $50,000 to have someone take the ACT for her son and was sentenced to three weeks in prison for it, according to CNN. She's also hilariously the author of a book called The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations.
- 9/26
9) Gregory and Marcia Abbott
Gregory, the founder of food and beverage distributor International Dispensing Corp., and his wife Marcia were both sentenced to a month in prison for paying $125,000 to improve their daughter's ACT scores.
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- 10/26
10) John Vandemoer
The former Stanford University sailing coach took more than $610,000 in bribes to get students into Stanford under the guise of being athletic recruits, according to court documents. He was fired from Stanford (no real shocker there) and was sentenced to just one day in prison.
- 11/26
11) Agustin Huneeus Jr.
Huneeus is a Napa Valley winery owner who paid $300,000 to have his daughter's SAT score changed AND have her presented as a water polo recruit to get her into USC. The absolute best detail from the court docs, though is that when Huneeus couldn't find a photo of his daughter playing water polo, he just submitted a picture of a stranger. For all of that, he was sentenced to five months in prison.
- 12/26
12) Karen Littlefair
Littlefair is a socialite from Newport Beach, California and spent a modest $9,000 to have someone take her son's classes to make sure he graduated from Georgetown. She got five weeks in prison for it, according to the LA Times.
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- 13/26
13) Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez
The husband and wife paid $350,000 to get their daughter into Georgetown as a tennis recruit. According to the LA Times, Manuel got six months in prison for it while Elizabeth got seven.
- 14/26
14) Marjorie Klapper
This jewelry business owner from Menlo Park, California paid $15,000 to have her son's ACT answers changed. And as if that's not bad enough, her son's race on his college applications was changed to present him as a minority (she says Singer did that and that it wasn't her, but who knows). For all of that she was sentenced to four months in prison, according to CBS.
- 15/26
15) Devin Slone
This LA man paid $250,000 to have his son accepted to USC as a waterpolo recruit, and even went so far as to stage a photo shoot of him in waterpolo gear for the application. After he was charged for his involvement, Slone was sentenced to four months in prison.
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- 16/26
16) Martin Fox
Fox is the former president of a private tennis academy in Texas who got involved in the scheme by facilitating the bribe payments. A Justice Department report says that he got three months in prison for his crimes.
- 17/26
17) Michael Center
This former University of Austin tennis coach accepted $100,000 in bribes to secure admissions for fake student athletes. He was sentenced to six months in prison, according to the Texas Tribune, and had to forfeit $60,000 of his illegally made money and pay a $20,000 fine.
- 18/26
18) Michelle Janavs
Michelle Janavs is the daughter of one of the co-inventors of Hot Pockets and she paid $300,000 to have her daughters' ACT answers fudged AND had one of her daughters accepted to USC as a volleyball recruit. According to CNN, she was sentenced to five months in prison and *Gretchen Weiner voice* I don't think her father, the inventor of Hot Pockets, would be too pleased to hear about this.
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- 19/26
19) Peter Sartorio
The co-founder of Elena’s Food Specialties paid $15,000 to have his daughter's ACT scores rigged. Somehow Sartorio was the only parent involved in the scheme to avoid actual jail time and instead just got one year of probation. According to the New York Times, his lawyers argued he should get a lighter sentence because he wasn't famous or privileged.
- 20/26
20) Robert Flaxman
This California real estate developer paid $75,000 to have his daughter’s ACT answers changed, and he was sentenced to one month in prison, according to the Washington Post.
- 21/26
21) Toby MacFarlane
Toby MacFarlane is an insurance executive who paid a jaw-dropping $450,000 to get his son and daughter into USC as basketball and soccer recruits. He was sentenced to six months in prison for it but got out two and a half months early because of COVID, NBC reported.
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- 22/26
22) Peter Dameris
Peter Dameris managed to walk away with only one day in prison after paying $300,000 to have his son recruited to Georgetown as a tennis player. He did, however, get put on three years of supervised release, 12 months of which will be in home confinement, per CBS.
- 23/26
23) Stephen Semprevivo
This LA-based executive paid $400,000 to get his son into Georgetown as a tennis player, with some of that money going to Georgetown’s tennis coach Gordon Ernst. Semprevivo got four months in prison for his actions.
- 24/26
24) Jeffrey Bizzack
Jeffrey Bizzack is a businessman from Solana Beach, California who paid $250,000 to get his son into USC as a fake volleyball recruit and was sentenced to two months in prison, according to the LA Times. He also resigned from the board of his company.
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- 25/26
25) Todd and Diane Blake
This husband and wife paid $250,000 to get their daughter into USC as a volleyball recruit despite her not playing the sport, according to the New York Times. Diane was sentenced to six weeks in prison and Todd (who pleaded guilty to an additional charge on conspiracy to commit money laundering) got four months.
- 26/26
26) Xiaoning Sui
Xiaoning Sui is another Canadian caught up in the scandal. She's a mother from Surrey, British Columbia who paid $400,000 to get her son into UCLA as a soccer recruit. She was sentenced to time served after being arrested in Spain in connection to the scandal and spending five months in jail there, CBC reported.
They paid HOW MUCH to get their kids into college??