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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019
Actress Loughlin surrenders as admissions fallout spreads
By ALANNA DURKIN
RICHER and
COLLIN BINKLEY
Associated Press
BOSTON — Fallout
from a sweeping college
admissions scandal swiftly
spread today, with actress
Lori Loughlin surrender-
ing ahead of a Los Angeles
court hearing and a Silicon
Valley hedge fund replacing
its leader.
Loughlin and fellow
actress Felicity Huffman
headline the list of some
50 people charged in doc-
uments unveiled in Boston
that describe a scheme to
cheat the admissions pro-
cess at eight sought-after
schools. The parents bribed
college coaches and other
insiders to get their chil-
dren into selective schools,
authorities said.
Loughlin turned herself
in to the FBI this morning
and is scheduled for a court
appearance in the after-
noon, spokeswoman Laura
Eimiller said.
Prosecutors
allege
Loughlin and her husband,
fashion designer Mossimo
Giannulli, paid $500,000
to have their two daugh-
ters labeled as recruits to
the University of Southern
California crew team, even
though neither is a rower.
Giannulli was released
Tuesday after posting a $1
million bond.
The
scandal
also
ensnared movers and shak-
ers in the corporate world.
The Palo Alto, California,
hedge fund Hercules Capi-
tal announced today it was
replacing its leader, Man-
uel Henriquez, who was
arrested in New York City
on Tuesday and released
on $500,000 bail. Shares of
the hedge fund plunged 9
percent.
Henriquez will still hold
a seat on the board and serve
as an adviser, Hercules said.
Mark Riddell — an
administrator for Braden-
ton, Florida’s IMG Acad-
emy, which was founded by
renowned tennis coach Nick
Bollettieri and bills itself as
the world’s largest sports
academy — was suspended
from his job late Tuesday
after he was accused of tak-
ing college admissions tests
as part of the scheme.
At the center of the
scheme was admissions
consultant William “Rick”
Singer, founder of the Edge
College & Career Network
of Newport Beach, Califor-
nia, authorities said. Singer
pleaded guilty Tuesday, and
his lawyer, Donald Heller,
said his client intends to
cooperate fully with pros-
AP Photo/Steven Senne
William ‘Rick’ Singer pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston
on Tuesday to charges in a nationwide college admissions
bribery scandal.
ecutors and is “remorseful
and contrite and wants to
move on with his life.”
Prosecutors said par-
ents paid Singer big money
from 2011 up until just last
month to bribe coaches and
administrators to falsely
make their children look
like star athletes to boost
their chances of getting
accepted. The consultant
also hired ringers to take
college entrance exams for
students and paid off insid-
ers at testing centers to cor-
rect students’ answers.
Some parents spent hun-
dreds of thousands of dol-
lars, as much as $6.5 mil-
lion, to guarantee their
children’s admission, offi -
cials said.
“These parents are a cat-
alog of wealth and priv-
ilege,”
U.S.
Attorney
Andrew Lelling said at a
news conference in Boston,
where the indictments in the
scandal were handed up.
At least nine athletic
coaches and 33 parents were
charged. Dozens, including
Huffman, the Emmy-win-
ning star of ABC’s “Des-
perate Housewives,” were
arrested by midday Tuesday.
Huffman
posted
a
$250,000 bond after an
appearance in federal court
in Los Angeles. Her hus-
band, actor William H.
Macy, has not been charged,
though an FBI agent stated
in an affi davit that he was
in the room when Huffman
fi rst heard the pitch from a
scam insider.
Loughlin became famous
as the wholesome Aunt
Becky in the 1980s and ‘90s
sitcom “Full House.” She
has lately become the queen
of the Hallmark Channel
with her holiday movies and
the series “When Calls the
Heart.”
The coaches worked at
schools such as Yale, Stan-
ford, Georgetown, Wake
Forest, the University of
Texas, the University of
Southern California and the
University of California at
Los Angeles.
Stanford’s sailing coach
John Vandemoer pleaded
guilty Tuesday in Boston.
A former Yale soccer coach
had pleaded guilty before
the documents went public
and helped build the case
against others.
No
students
were
charged, with authorities
saying that in many cases
the teenagers were unaware
of what was going on. Sev-
eral of the colleges involved
made no mention of tak-
ing any action against the
students.
Several
defendants,
including Huffman, were
charged with conspiracy to
commit fraud, punishable
by up to 20 years in prison.
“For every student admit-
ted through fraud, an honest
and genuinely talented stu-
dent was rejected,” Lelling
said.
Lelling said the inves-
tigation is continuing and
authorities believe other
parents were involved. The
IRS is also investigating,
since some parents allegedly
disguised the bribes as char-
itable donations.
The colleges themselves
are not targets, the prose-
cutor said. A number of the
institutions moved quickly
to fi re or suspend the
coaches and distance their
name from the scandal, por-
traying themselves as vic-
tims. Stanford fi red the sail-
ing coach, and USC dropped
its water polo coach and
an athletic administrator.
UCLA suspended its soccer
coach, and Wake Forest did
the same with its volleyball
coach.
Flu: This year’s fl u season so far has paled in comparison to last year’s
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Warrenton
Mayor
Henry Balensifer asked
for a moment of silence in
remembrance of Pior at the
start of a City Commission
meeting Tuesday night.
“He was a good kid and
when one of our young dies
it affects the whole com-
munity,” the mayor said.
“A part of our community
dies with that person.”
Since 2008, there have
been 14 reported fl u-re-
lated deaths in Oregon
among people under 18,
with an average of about 1
per year. Eight of the peo-
ple who died were not vac-
cinated. Some died from a
2009 H1N1 swine fl u infec-
tion before it was included
in the seasonal fl u shot.
The percentage of emer-
gency room admissions
related to the fl u, which
over the past two years has
peaked in late January to
early February, has steadily
increased through Febru-
ary and the fi rst half of this
month.
Jewell School recently
closed for deep cleaning
over three days after an
outbreak sickened a third
of the student population.
Although peaking later,
this year’s fl u season has
so far paled in comparison
to last year, when Oregon
reported four fl u-related
deaths.
“I think last year
was a particularly nasty
year,” Leman said. “We
broke our record for
hospitalizations.”
This year’s vaccination
has been 61 percent effec-
tive for those younger than
18 and 47 percent effective
for all ages at preventing
the fl u, Leman said.
A 2017 study by
researchers with the Amer-
ican Academy of Pediatrics
found vaccines were 65
percent effective between
2010 and 2014 at pre-
venting fl u-related deaths
among children.
Historically, the vaccine
has decreased the chances
of
hospitalization
for
senior citizens by 60 per-
cent and death by 80 per-
cent, Leman said.
He cautioned people
to get vaccinated and take
everyday precautions, such
as hand-washing and cov-
ering coughs and sneezes.
“I wish it were over, but
it’s not,” he said. “This is
just a season that’s peaked
a bit later than in previous
years.”
Katie Frankowicz con-
tributed to this report.
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