Ex-school director gets home detention in college scam

A former director of private California university was sentenced Tuesday to three months of home confinement for his role in the sprawling faculty admissions bribery plan.

Igor Dvorskiy, who was director of West Hollywood College or university Preparatory College, was ordered to provide a single yr of supervised release — such as the 3 months of household detention — for permitting cheating on faculty entrance examinations he administered. He pleaded guilty in 2019 to a cost of racketeering conspiracy.

Prosecutors say Dvorskiy agreed to administer ACT and SAT tests at West Hollywood College Prep for the shoppers of Rick Singer, a school admissions guide and the bribery scheme’s mastermind, and let a different gentleman pretend to proctor the checks and correct their solutions.

Dvorskiy is amid far more than 50 individuals convicted in the scandal that uncovered a plan to get the children of abundant mother and father into major faculties with rigged take a look at scores and bogus athletic credentials.

Dvorskiy’s attorneys stated in courtroom papers that he feels “deep remorse” for his involvement in the scheme and “the impact that it has experienced on his loved ones, local community, and the higher education admissions procedure.”

They famous that his actions had been “not motivated by a need to individually enrich himself,” and that Dvorskiy set all the funds that Singer gave him into West Hollywood Faculty Prep.

“He will take full duty for his participation and he accepts the repercussions of his guilty plea,” his lawyers wrote.

Singer is scheduled to be sentenced in November. He pleaded guilty to a number of felonies just after encouraging authorities construct the massive situation by secretly recording his discussions with mothers and fathers and athletic coaches.