Prosecutors ratchet up pressure on parents in admission scandal with new charges
by Matthew Ormseth and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Mar 27, 2019
3 minutes
A federal grand jury has indicted a Palo Alto, Calif., couple on charges they hired William "Rick" Singer, the confessed ringleader of a college admissions cheating scam, to rig their son's college entrance exam, according to court records filed Tuesday.
The indictments against Amy and Gregory Colburn are the first the U.S. attorney's office in Boston has secured since it announced a sweeping investigation earlier this month into Singer and dozens of people accused of scheming with him to sneak kids into high-end universities through bribes and faked test scores. The decision by prosecutors
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