{"id":456696,"date":"2023-01-04T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=456696"},"modified":"2023-01-12T01:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:16:05","slug":"rick-singer-the-man-who-ran-the-college-admissions-scam-has-been-sentenced-to-3-5-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rick-singer-the-man-who-ran-the-college-admissions-scam-has-been-sentenced-to-3-5-years-in-prison","title":{"rendered":"Rick Singer, The Man Who Ran The College Admissions Scam, Has Been Sentenced To 3.5 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William &#8220;Rick&#8221; Singer leaves the federal courthouse in Boston on March 12, 2019. Brian Snyder \/ Reuters The man who orchestrated the massive college admissions scam that embroiled coaches, test proctors, and dozens of wealthy parents &#8212; including actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman &#8212; was sentenced to three and a half years in prison Wednesday. William &#8220;Rick&#8221; Singer, 62, was ordered to report to prison to begin his 42-month sentence on Feb. 27. District Court Judge Rya Zobel also sentenced Singer to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay more than $10 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and also forfeit millions in assets. His sentencing is the culmination of a yearslong investigation and legal process that has so far resulted in the convictions of more than 50 people who were involved in the scheme to fake test scores and athletic achievements to get the children of wealthy celebrities, tech executives, and entrepreneurs into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He and dozens of others schemed to falsify test scores and athletic achievements to get the children of wealthy parents into elite schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}