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2nd parent to plead guilty

A Menlo Park father told a federal court in Boston Wednesday that he plans to plead guilty to an unspecified charge in a college admissions scam case revealed last month.

Peter Sartorio, 53, disclosed the plan in a filing submitted by his lawyers to U.S. Magistrate M. Page Kelley.  Sartorio had been scheduled for an initial appearance Wednesday before Kelley, but he asked for a postponement until April 30 because he “intends to plead guilty” to a charge to be filed by federal prosecutors.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/04/m...s-scandal/

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So the woman who was expelled included the sailing stuff in her application but didn't need it? (And got expelled for including it, even though she didn't need it?) The irony is delicious.

I suspect it wasn't quite as clear as "didn't need it". 

It seems quite likely that said student, while not a recruited athlete, got non-academic points in her application file for quality in sailing presumably vouched for by the coach. 
Otherwise, indeed the irony is thick and the coach a particularly talented scam artist for getting the $500,000 for not doing anything.

reported previously

The mastermind behind this week’s massive college admissions bribery scandal gave Stanford’s sailing coach a previously-undisclosed $500,000 payment after the prestigious university admitted a student who had “fabricated sailing credentials” in her application, court documents obtained by this news organization show.

But the student was admitted through the university’s normal process, a Stanford spokesman said Thursday, and not on the recommendation of disgraced sailing coach John Vandemoer, who pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges that he accepted $270,000 in payments to reserve coveted admission spots for applicants with bogus sailing bonafides.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/14/c...edentials/

[82lsju]

2nd parent to plead guilty

A Menlo Park father told a federal court in Boston Wednesday that he plans to plead guilty to an unspecified charge in a college admissions scam case revealed last month.

Peter Sartorio, 53, disclosed the plan in a filing submitted by his lawyers to U.S. Magistrate M. Page Kelley.  Sartorio had been scheduled for an initial appearance Wednesday before Kelley, but he asked for a postponement until April 30 because he “intends to plead guilty” to a charge to be filed by federal prosecutors.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/04/m...s-scandal/

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So the woman who was expelled included the sailing stuff in her application but didn't need it? (And got expelled for including it, even though she didn't need it?) The irony is delicious.

I suspect it wasn't quite as clear as "didn't need it". 

It seems quite likely that said student, while not a recruited athlete, got non-academic points in her application file for quality in sailing presumably vouched for by the coach. 
Otherwise, indeed the irony is thick and the coach a particularly talented scam artist for getting the $500,000 for not doing anything.

reported previously

The mastermind behind this week’s massive college admissions bribery scandal gave Stanford’s sailing coach a previously-undisclosed $500,000 payment after the prestigious university admitted a student who had “fabricated sailing credentials” in her application, court documents obtained by this news organization show.

But the student was admitted through the university’s normal process, a Stanford spokesman said Thursday, and not on the recommendation of disgraced sailing coach John Vandemoer, who pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges that he accepted $270,000 in payments to reserve coveted admission spots for applicants with bogus sailing bonafides.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/14/c...edentials/