Some of the parents charged in the colleges admission scandal have a tough choice to make in the coming weeks: Do they fight the charges against them or agree to cooperate with federal authorities?
talking about cheating and bribes aimed at getting their kids into elite colleges, court records show. There are also documented emails and checks and financial transfers for payments to Singer’s charity and businesses owned by several coaches linked to the scam.“The ringleader has flipped here, and the ringleader is the engine driving the cheating machine. He has laid everyone out, and he went quasi-undercover,” said former federal prosecutor Manny Medrano.
“There is so much corroboration,” said Medrano, who handles numerous white-collar criminal defenses. “The danger here is if the judge follows the sentencing guidelines, there is going to be jail exposure.” Usually, fraud refers to a scheme to obtain money from someone through a false promise. But in 1988, Congress expanded the anti-fraud law. A one-line amendment made it a crime to deprive someone of the “intangible right of honest services.”
In the college cheating scandal, prosecutors are alleging that parents deprived universities of their property — a slot in the school — by deception.In such cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that secret deals are not a crime unless they involve a direct payoff. But in this case, the charges reveal that prosecutors have emails and recorded phone calls they say show that actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, as well as others, knowingly paid a third party — Singer and his associates — to get their children admitted to universities by scamming the admissions system.Medrano, who prosecuted some of the highest-profile drug cartel cases in U.S.
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