Gordon Caplan, 53, was ordered incarcerated by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani after he admitted paying $75,000 to rig his daughter's ACT exam.
Already disbarred and removed from his prestigious law firm, Gordon Caplan on Thursday received a final rebuke from the legal system he once sat atop when he was sentenced to one month in prison for conspiring to rig his daughter’s college entrance exams.
“That a lawyer who has reached the apex of his profession could engage in such blatant criminality reveals a staggering disdain for the law,” Eric Rosen, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote in a sentencing memorandum. A complaint unsealed in March and new documents filed by prosecutors last week lay out Caplan’s entry into Singer’s scheme, his eagerness to secure a top standardized test score for his daughter tempered by his wariness of getting caught.
Caplan returned five hours later to pick up his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, Caplan and the government say, Mark Riddell, Singer’s Harvard-educated test-taker, had corrected the girl’s answers after she’d finished the test.
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