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    Star attorney and Napa Valley vintner plead guilty in college admissions scandal

    by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Six months ago, federal agents watched Gordon Caplan and his daughter walk into a West Hollywood school where a 36-year-old man would fix the girl's college entrance exam. Caplan, the co-chairman of an international law firm, envisioned his daughter attending an elite school - maybe even his alma mater, Cornell University.

    On Tuesday, after pleading guilty to fraud conspiracy and admitting he paid $75,000 to rig his daughter's ACT, Caplan walked out of federal court in Boston and apologized.

    "I'm deeply ashamed. I'm terribly sorry. I'm really sorry to my daughter, who I love more than anything in the world," he told reporters. "She knew nothing about this - hasn't even applied to college yet. But I'm

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