Test administrator sentenced over U.S. college admissions scandal

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) – A Kyiv-born check administrator who admitted to involvement in Operation Varsity Blues, the U.S. school admissions bribery scandal, was spared jail on Tuesday after serving to prosecutors construct instances towards different defendants.

Igor Dvorskiy, 56, was sentenced to 1 yr of supervised launch, together with three months in house confinement, and ordered to forfeit $149,540, the workplace of U.S. Lawyer Rachael Rollins in Massachusetts stated.

The defendant was sentenced by U.S. District Choose Indira Talwani in Boston, after pleading responsible in 2019 to conspiring to commit racketeering.

A lawyer for Dvorskiy declined to remark.

Dvorskiy, a former director of the non-public Los Angeles highschool West Hollywood School Prep, was accused of accepting practically $200,000 in bribes to assist dad and mom inflate their youngsters’s scores on the SAT and ACT school entrance exams.

Prosecutors stated Dvorskiy organized for sham proctors to “right” the youngsters’s unsuitable solutions.

The dad and mom had been represented by William “Rick” Singer, a marketing consultant who admitted to main the scheme to assist their youngsters get into prime universities via dishonest and bribery. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 16.

Greater than 50 individuals have been convicted at trial or pleaded responsible over involvement within the scheme, together with actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

In in search of to keep away from house confinement for Dvorskiy, the defendant’s attorneys stated the daddy of three college-age youngsters was not motivated by greed or status, and shortly accepted accountability.

In addition they stated Dvorskiy had persevered via a tough upbringing within the former Soviet Union, together with anti-Semitism.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Further reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; enhancing by Grant McCool)