College Cheating Scandal
Los Angeles business executive Stephen Semprevivo was sentenced to four months in federal prison for paying $400,000 to get his son admitted to Georgetown University as a fake tennis recruit. He is the third parent sentenced in the college admissions scandal, and seems to have made the largest payment to the ring leader of the scheme, Rick Singer. The U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani made the pattern of having harsher punishments for the parents who paid more money to get their kids' SAT or ACT scores fixed. Semprevivo was also sentenced to two years of supervised release, 500 hours of community service, and a fine of $100,000. Semprevivo's attorneys stand by the belief that Semprevivo and the 35 other parents were simply victims of Rick Singer. Semprevivo's sentencing is a couple days after Judge Talwani gave Los Angeles businessman Devin Sloane 4 months in prison for paying $250,000 to get his son to be a false recruit for the water polo team at the Univ