{"id":3790,"date":"2019-10-20T04:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T04:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2019-10-20T04:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T04:16:54","slug":"varsity-blues-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/varsity-blues-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Blues update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of today fifteen defendants have pled guilty in the Varsity Blues case. That&#8217;s the one where parents, using money to bribe coaches and test personnel, cheated to get their kids into colleges. Here&#8217;s a list of those people:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Felicity Huffman<br \/>\nAugustin Huneeus, Jr.<br \/>\nDavina Isackson<br \/>\nBruce Isackson<br \/>\nPeter Sartorio<br \/>\nStephen Semprevivo<br \/>\nDevin Sloane<br \/>\nGordon Caplan<br \/>\nGregory Abbott<br \/>\nMarcia Abbott<br \/>\nJane Buckingham<br \/>\nRobert Flaxman<br \/>\nMarjorie Klapper<br \/>\nToby MacFarlane<br \/>\nJohn Vandemoer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vandemoer was a coach. All the rest are parents. The longest prison sentence so far is for five months (Huneeus), followed closely by four months for Semprevivo and Sloane. The coach, although sentenced to only one day in jail (time served), received six months of home confinement, the longest confinement sentence. Four other parents have pled guilty but they haven&#8217;t yet been sentenced. All of these convicted defendants were charged by way of information, the typical procedure used when a plea deal has been worked out in advance of charging. All those who were charged by indictment, seventeen more in all, have not pled guilty and have not gone to trial. Lori Loughlin and her husband are the best known of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today fifteen defendants have pled guilty in the Varsity Blues case. That&#8217;s the one where parents, using money to bribe coaches and test personnel, cheated to get their kids into colleges. 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