Low-profile parents take center stage as college admissions scandal probe spreads
LOS ANGELES - No one was looking at Bruce Isackson.
Seated in a Boston courtroom recently among a dozen other parents implicated in a scheme to defraud half a dozen top universities, Isackson - a real estate investor from Northern California - was overshadowed by his more famous co-defendants.
A few rows ahead of him sat actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer J. Mossimo Giannulli. Across the aisle was another actress, Felicity Huffman, whose gaze did not once meet the pack of reporters who trailed her out of the courthouse, then to the car that waited to whisk her away.
But Isackson and his wife, Davina, could play a central role in an investigation that has shaken American academia and forced a reckoning over the illegal and legal ways money offers access to higher education.
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