College-Scandal Punishment Gets Harsher With Richer Bribes
The second parent sentenced in the U.S. college-admissions scandal got four months in prison -- far longer than the two-week sentence of the first parent, Felicity Huffman -- for paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a bogus water polo recruit.
“This isn’t a mistake,” the judge said of Devin Sloane’s participation in the scam, also sentencing Sloane to two years’ supervised release, a fine of $95,000 and 500 hours of community service. “This is a decision and a course of action.”
The remaining 13 parents who pleaded guilty in the sprawling corruption prosecution are likely to take note of this theme as their own sentencing hearings approach. Before meting out Sloane’s term, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani grilled his lawyer on the defense’s argument that the 53-year-old Los Angeles water-systems executive was a good man lured into crime by a grifter, Rick Singer, the scheme’s admitted mastermind.
“Why does it matter, in terms of my sentencing, why someone else invited him to do this crime?” Talwani asked.
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