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A Napa Valley winemaker facing sentencing Friday in the national college admissions cheating scandal has asked the judge for a two-month sentence — half as long as those given two other parents last week and a fraction of the 15 months prosecutors are seeking.

Among Agustin F. Huneeus’ arguments for leniency? Unlike some of the dozens of other parents implicated in the scheme, the daughter he’d helped cheat on her SAT and falsify a water polo profile didn’t get accepted to the University of Southern California because of his arrest.

“Due to the timing of the charges, his daughter was never ultimately admitted to USC,” Huneeus’ lawyers argued in a sentencing memorandum, “thus she never ‘took a spot’ from some other more deserving applicant.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/02/c...in-prison/

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A Napa Valley winemaker facing sentencing Friday in the national college admissions cheating scandal has asked the judge for a two-month sentence — half as long as those given two other parents last week and a fraction of the 15 months prosecutors are seeking.

Among Agustin F. Huneeus’ arguments for leniency? Unlike some of the dozens of other parents implicated in the scheme, the daughter he’d helped cheat on her SAT and falsify a water polo profile didn’t get accepted to the University of Southern California because of his arrest.

“Due to the timing of the charges, his daughter was never ultimately admitted to USC,” Huneeus’ lawyers argued in a sentencing memorandum, “thus she never ‘took a spot’ from some other more deserving applicant.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/02/c...in-prison/