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Another sentenced in college admissions fraud scheme

By Altman & Altman

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A California man has become the second affluent parent to be sentenced to serve jail time in relation to a wide-reaching fraud case involving college admissions. Devin Sloane, CEO of a Los Angeles water and wastewater treatment facility, was sentenced to serve four months, plus two years of supervised release, complete 500 hours of community service and pay a $95,000 fine in federal court in Boston on Sept. 24. He originally plead guilty to his charges in May. Sloane is the second parent, the first being actress Felicity Huffman ? who received a two-week prison sentence earlier in September ? to be convicted of making fraudulent claims to a high-profile university as part of a scheme to get their children accepted into the school. A third parent, a Chinese foreign national, was also indicted on the same day of Sloane?s sentencing for allegedly paying $400,000 to get her son admitted into UCLA as a soccer recruit, despite never playing the sport competitively...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on October 07, 2019 (boomark / email).