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, also allegedly participated in the cheating scheme, paying $75,000 to the company to help his daughter cheat on the ACT.Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez
In reality, the indictment notes that “at her best, she appears to have ranked 207th in Northern California in the under-12 girls division, with an overall win/loss record of 2-8.” According to the indictment, Rick Singer, who orchestrated the scheme and led the company behind it, told McGlashan that his son’s doctor “should come up with stuff, discrepancies, to show why he needs multiple days. That he can’t sit six and a half hours taking one test,” he said in a phone call, while wearing a wire to cooperate with federal investigators.McGlashan also participated in the scheme to help his son get accepted to USC as a recruited athlete.
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