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SFGATE: The craziest stories in the college scheme affidavit

The craziest stories in the college scheme affidavit
Published on March 13, 2019 at 03:09AM by Michael Rosen

By this point, you've probably read everything there is to know about the charges filed against William Singer, the man at the center of the college cheating scandal. In case you've missed today's stories, however, here is a round-up of a few of the wildest parts of FBI agent Laura Smith's affidavit filing wire fraud charges against a whole slew of parents.

Candid discussion

Gordon Caplan, an attorney based in Greenwich, Conn., and CW-1 (widely considered to be William Singer) are having a conversation in June 2018 that was intercepted "pursuant to a Court-authorized wiretap." In a transcript, the two discuss the nature of the scheme.

CW-1: It's the homerun of homeruns.

CAPLAN: And it works?

CW-1: Every time. (laughing)

CAPLAN: (laughing)

Footnotes

A married couple, the Henriquezes, are accused of participating in the test cheating scheme and conspiring to bribe Gordon Ernst, the head tennis coach at Georgetown, to secure her admission to the university. The author of the affidavit describes their daughter's tennis qualifications.

More: What we know about the Bay Area residents implicated in the college cheating scandal

 "In addition to the falsified essay, the application falsely indicated that she played 'club tennis' all through high school for 20 hours per week and 52 weeks per year, and listed her as having a 'Top 50 ranking' in the United States Tennis Association ('USTA') Junior Girls Tennis for her sophomore through senior years of high school, and as being on the USTA All-Academic Team for tennis for her junior...

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