The second parent to learn their fate in the scandal got a longer sentence than Felicity Huffman (via toofab)
, was given four months behind bars on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to using Rick Singer's so-called "side door" to get his son into college.The Los Angeles business executive admitted paying $250,000 to set his son up as a fake water polo star in order to gain admission to USC.
The court heard how Sloane bought water polo equipment on Amazon, including a ball and a cap bearing the Italian flag, before getting the teen to pose in the family pool. After some Photoshop work, a fake profile was set up boasting he was a member of the Italian Junior National Team — even though he didn't play the sport at all.
Prosecutor Eric Rosen said Sloane used his dead mother as a prop for a fake donation, and "even expressed outrage when high school counselors dared to question why a student who did not play water polo was being recruited to play college water polo." Some 35 parents were charged in the admission probe in total. Last week, Huffman became the first to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, earning herself 14 days in prison, 12 months of supervised release, 250 hours of community service and a $30,000 fine, after admitting to paying $15,000 to have one of her daughter's SAT scores corrected.
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