In admissions scandal, L.A. parent who faked son's water polo talents gets four months in prison
Devin Sloane, a Los Angeles businessman whose son was admitted to USC as a bogus water polo star, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison.
Full Coverage: Dozens charged — including Hollywood actresses — in connection with college admissions scheme In urging Talwani to send Sloane to prison, prosecutors described the elaborate scheme he used to transform his son into an international water polo star. Sloane wrote back the designer: “He’s out of the water too much to look authentic. Can you look at a host of photos of actual competition and you’ll see how the athletes are lower in the water.”The designer sent Sloane a photo showing his son submerged up to his armpits, which Sloane forwarded to Singer.
USC, too, was skeptical of the boy’s water polo bona fides. Prosecutors say Heinel stifled the school’s doubts, telling an admissions officer in an email that Sloane’s son “is small but he has a long torso but short strong legs plus he is fast which helps him win the draws to start play after goals are scored.”“College admissions is a zero-sum game,” prosecutors concluded in their sentencing memorandum.
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