Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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03/13/2019 15:46

Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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Where does William H Macy fit into all of this? They’re still married, right?

They're still married. They haven't charged him--yet. The guy claims he met with him as well as huffman but my guess is so far the trail of money, emails, etc. goes back only to her and her accounts--would make sense they keep all their stuff separate for legal and other reasons since they are both high-earning and high-profile.

Or, so far they only have actual evidence (the transcripted phone conversations) of his involvement with the second daughter, who ultimately was not a student benefitting from the scheme. The parents changed their mind on her at the 11th hour.

They have Felicity Huffman on recorded phone conversations where the fraud is admitted. They don't have Macy on a recorded call.

The complaint explains how they nailed all the parents. Once Singer was caught and was cooperating, the FBI had him call each person to say he was giving them a heads up that his foundation was being audited, and if there were questions about the parents' contributions, he was not going to say that it was for [getting the proctor to take/correct their daughter's ACT/SAT; or bribing the coach and faking athletic accomplishments; or whatever that specific fraud was] to get the parent on tape agreeing and not disputing that fraud was the reason for the contribution to the foundation. He also would tell them that, by the way, the coach was impressed with the fake athlete profile you created and said they may use that format themselves, also so that the parent would be on tape acknowledging or at least not disputing the fraud.

Incorrect. They DO have Macy on recorded calls.
He is referred to as "spouse" and makes comments.
But Macy is discussing the second daughter who ultimately did not use the scheme.

166. On or about December 12, 2018, HUFFMAN and her spouse spoke with CW-1
again to finalize plans for their younger daughter’s exam. During the call, CW-1 confirmed that
the price to participate in the cheating scheme would be $15,000, and discussed with HUFFMAN
and her spouse whether they thought their daughter would actually take the exam over two days,
in order to achieve as high a score as possible before CW-2 corrected her answers. Excerpts
from the call, which was consensually recorded, are set forth below.
CW-1 Yeah. So I guess the question for both of you guys are-- is, are we going
to do this similarly that we did with [your older daughter] where the
[younger daughter] will take thetest at [the West Hollywood Test Center]
--
SPOUSE Yeah, I think [inaudible].
CW-1 I’m sorry.
SPOUSE Yes, I think we are [inaudible].
CW-1 Okay. Same exact. Same exact so she’ll take the test [at the West
Hollywood Test Center]. [CW-2] will be the proctor. We will ensure that
sh-- we get a score that will be inthe 14s or-- or, or higher because we
want toachieve the schools we want to get to, correct?
SPOUSE --we’re talking about Georgetown, places like--
CW-1 Yeah. So we’ll need to b-- we’ll need to be mid 14s to 1500 to be-- to be
solid. That’s out of 1600. So that means that sh-- she’ll score in the 700s in each category.
….
CW-1 Okay, and then, so then are we-- so againthe last time we did this. Just so I
can make sure the financial part is all squared away that then we’ll-- we
will send you an invoice for $15,000 and we’ll-- and that’ll be all taken
care of. Are we all okay with the financial side and the actual operational side of it?
SPOUSE --cool.
CW-1 Okay. That’s what I wanted-- that’s what I wantedto know, Okay, so
what I’ll do is we will start the paperwork of getting everything
accomplished in February sothat the test can be sent to [the West
Hollywood Test Center]. And, and then Felicity, my guess is you’ll have
[a] conversation, the school, may have [a] conversation with you and
you’ll just say, “You know, essentially what we’re going to do is [my
older daughter] took the-- the exam here,we don’t want to miss any
school, we’re going to take it over the weekend, and we’re-- we’re very
comfortable with this process because we’ve already doneit once before
and it worked out really well.”
SPOUSE: That’s [inaudible].
HUFFMAN: Okay.
….
SPOUSE Do we want two days?
HUFFMAN Better for her to take it over two days? I think it is.
CW-1 Well, at this point, Felicity, it doesn’treally matter because we’re going to get a s-- a score --
SPOUSE --I -- I understand that.
CW-1 But it’s up to you how you want to do this in--in her head.
SPOUSE She’ll score higher. Just her base score will be higher if we did it over two days.

Macy's lucky. That call that they're talking about happened in December 2018 (yes, three months ago). The second daughter is a sophomore in high school, they would have come back with another $10,000 in August 2019 in her junior year. But the feds are indicting now.