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    Couple sentenced to 1 month in prison for paying to rig daughter's college entrance exams

    by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times Oct 08, 2019 4 minutes

    A couple who splits their time between New York City and Colorado were sentenced Tuesday to one month in prison each for conspiring to fix their daughter's college entrance exams, a scam they decided was worth the $125,000 cost if it boosted her prospects of getting into Duke University, her mother's alma mater.

    In choosing to incarcerate Gregory and Marcia Abbott for a month, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani stopped short of the eight-month penalty prosecutors had requested. But she also wasn't swayed by appeals from the Abbotts and their attorneys to spare the couple prison altogether.

    The Abbotts are the sixth and seventh parents to be sentenced in the college admissions

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