In September, Stephen Semprevivo, a Los Angeles-based executive at a privately held provider of outsourced sales teams, was sentenced to four months in prison, two years of supervised release, 500 hours of community service, and a fine of $100,000.
Stephen Semprevivo is seen leading a federal courthouse in Boston on May 7, after pleading guilty to paying $400,000 to get his son Adam into Georgetown. Prosecutors asked a federal judge in Boston to sentence Sloane to one year and one day in prison, along with one year of supervised release, and a fine of $75,000. Sloane called the questioning "outrageous," court documents said. His son's high school counselor questioned the application because the school did not have a water polo team, according to court documents. Prosecutors alleged that a false athletic profile for Sloane's son called the teen a "perimeter player" who played for the "Italian Junior National Team" and the "LA Water Polo" team. When consulting with a graphic designer, Sloane was advised to take the photos in an indoor pool, court documents said. Read more: A high school guidance counselor was among the first to suspect a college admissions scandal after a student claimed to play water polo, despite there being no water polo team at the school Sloane's son did not actually play water polo and his high school did not have a team. Sloane told Singer that he purchased a ball and a cap off of Amazon for the photoshoot in a June 2017 email, court documents said. Prosecutors alleged in court documents that Sloane paid Singer $250,000 to have his son admitted to the University of Southern California as a water polo recruit.Īccording to the affidavit, Sloane bought water polo gear of Amazon to stage a photoshoot with his son for a USC application. Prosecutors initially recommended four months in prison for Huffman but later lowered that to 30 days.ĭevin Sloane, the founder and chief executive of a drinking water and wastewater systems business in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced to four months in prison, 500 hours of community service, 2 years of supervised release, and has to pay a fine of $95,000. "I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues, and the educational community," Huffman said in a statement in April after agreeing to plead guilty. Read more: Felicity Huffman has been sentenced to 14 days in prison for her role in the college-admissions scandalĬourt documents said Huffman arranged for her younger daughter, Georgia, to be part of the scheme as well but later decided against it. Huffman then disguised the $15,000 as a charitable donation for disadvantaged young people. She will be on supervised release for a year.Īn affidavit said that Huffman arranged for her eldest daughter, Sophia, to take the SAT at the West Hollywood Test Center, where her answers were later corrected. She was the first parent to be sentenced in the scandal.Īlong with the 14-day prison sentence, Huffman was fined $30,000 and ordered to do 250 hours of community service. The "Desperate Housewives" actor pleaded guilty to fraud charges in May. All Rights Reserved.Felicity Huffman arrives at federal court in Boston to face charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.įelicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail after admitting that she paid $15,000 to have her daughter's SAT answers falsified as part of the scandal.