Former TPG executive's guilty plea upheld in US college admissions scandal

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A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld the conviction of a former senior executive at the private equity firm TPG Capital for participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $50,000 to rig his son's college entrance exam results.

William McGlashan's argument that the indictment against him should have been dismissed because inflated ACT test scores cannot support the wire fraud charge underlying his conviction.three-month prison sentence

U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Howard, however, wrote for a three-judge panel that McGlashan's plan "proved much more intricate than merely tampering with the scores," as it also involved securing a test proctored by an associate of the admissions scheme's mastermind, William "Rick" Singer. McGlashan was among dozens of people charged in 2019 in the "Operation Varsity Blues" investigation, which exposed how some wealthy parents went to extreme lengths to secure spots for their children at prestigious schools including Yale, Georgetown and the University of Southern California.

 

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