They paid a bogus charity more than $25-million over seven years to arrange for people to fix SAT and ACT entrance exams for their children.
Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
They paid a bogus charity run by Californian William Singer more than $25-million over seven years both to arrange for people to fix SAT and ACT entrance exams for their children and also to bribe university sports coaches to recruit their children, even when the children were not qualified to play at that level.
Thirteen of those accused, including Huffman, were arrested and slated for arraignment in Los Angeles. Others appeared in courts in Boston, New York, Connecticut and elsewhere. Loughlin was not arrested because she was in Canada.
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