https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-college-admissions-scandal-singer-20190314-story.html
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The self-styled “master coach” warned parents that in the scramble for a spot at an elite university, their children would hardly stand out without his help. He spoke of a “side door” to top schools he could wrench open to the “wealthiest families in the U.S.”
William “Rick” Singer made his name — and, prosecutors say, a fraudulent fortune — by peddling a bleak view of the college admissions process, one he portrayed as a minefield where one “small oversight or mistake … can make all the difference in your son or daughter gaining admission to the school of their dreams,” as he wrote on the book jacket of his guide to applying to college.
Now, the Newport Beach businessman stands at the heart of a scandal that has ensnared Hollywood actresses, chief executives and a fashion designer — what U.S. Atty. Andrew E. Lelling called “a catalog of wealth and privilege” — along with coaches and officials at some of the country’s preeminent schools.
Singer, 58, pleaded guilty this week to charges of fraud, racketeering, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
William Rick Singer was the leader of the Key Worldwide Foundation, an organization that acted as bribery vehicle for parents.
From Rick Singer's birthday (9/18/18) to the date of the scandal being revealed (3/12/19) is exactly 176 days later
Right below, it is exactly 5 months and 23 days, like 523
Right below, it is exactly 5 months and 23 days, like 523
It is also exactly 25 weeks and 1 day. Not counting the end date it is a span of 25 week.
25 weeks is equivalent to 24 weeks and 7 days, like 247
25 weeks is equivalent to 24 weeks and 7 days, like 247
Today is Pi day, 3.14 ~, the number that represents seasons, cycles, circles etc.
Rick Singer
Using a charity registered at his six-bathroom, $1.5-million Newport Beach home, Singer was paid more than $25 million by parents who, believing their children lacked the grades and test scores to get into elite universities, turned to a reputed “college whisperer” who bragged of shuttling hundreds of students into top universities, according to prosecutors.
He became known as a rainmaker. When marketing guru Jane Buckingham worried that her son was too sick to travel to one of Singer’s appointed test centers in Houston, Singer arranged to have a test sent to him so that he could take it at home, according to federal records.
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