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Test administrator sentenced over U.S. college admissions scandal

2022.08.10 00:45

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Test administrator sentenced over U.S. college admissions scandal
Igor Dvorskiy, a former college entrance exam administrator, arrives at the federal courthouse for a hearing for his role in the vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme called “Varsity Blues,” in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Br

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By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) – A Kyiv-born test administrator who admitted to involvement in Operation Varsity Blues, the U.S. college admissions bribery scandal, was spared prison on Tuesday after helping prosecutors build cases against other defendants.

Igor Dvorskiy, 56, was sentenced to one year of supervised release, including three months in home confinement, and ordered to forfeit $149,540, the office of U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins (NYSE:ROL) in Massachusetts said.

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

A lawyer for Dvorskiy declined to comment.

Dvorskiy, a former director of the private Los Angeles high school West Hollywood College Prep, was accused of accepting nearly $200,000 in bribes to help parents inflate their children’s scores on the SAT and ACT college entrance exams.

Prosecutors said Dvorskiy arranged for sham proctors to “correct” the children’s wrong answers.

The parents were represented by William “Rick” Singer, a consultant who admitted to leading the scheme to help their children get into top universities through cheating and bribery. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 16.

More than 50 people have been convicted at trial or pleaded guilty over involvement in the scheme, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

In seeking to avoid home confinement for Dvorskiy, the defendant’s lawyers said the father of three college-age children was not motivated by greed or prestige, and quickly accepted responsibility.

They also said Dvorskiy had persevered through a difficult upbringing in the former Soviet Union, including anti-Semitism.

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