Sidoo’s son was admitted to Chapman University in Orange and later transferred to USC, prosecutors wrote in the memo. Riddell would return to Vancouver to take the boy’s high school graduation exams, the indictment said. Singer and Riddell have each pleaded guilty to several felonies and have yet to be sentenced.
He notched a 1700, and Sidoo paid Singer $100,000, prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo. Because the boy had previously earned a 1460 out of 2400 possible points, Singer told Riddell not to aim too high, an indictment says. In 2011, Mark Riddell, Singer’s Harvard-educated accomplice, used a fake ID with his face and Sidoo’s older son’s name to take the SAT in Vancouver. “I hope that in time, people will not judge me for the worst moment in my life,” he said. 21.īefore being sentenced, Sidoo apologized to his family, his colleagues, his former coaches and the children he had mentored. The case’s highest-profile defendants - actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli - pleaded guilty in May and were slated to be sentenced on Aug.
Another 10 have maintained their innocence and are moving toward a pair of trials, the first of which is scheduled to begin Oct. attorney’s office in Boston to have acknowledged their guilt. Sidoo is one of 28 parents charged by the U.S. Federal prosecutors dropped a money-laundering charge against him in exchange for Sidoo acknowledging he’d committed fraud.
Sidoo, a Canadian citizen who lives in Vancouver, pleaded guilty in March to a single count of conspiring with William “Rick” Singer, the Newport Beach consultant at the center of the admissions scandal, to rig his two sons’ SAT entrance exams.
David Sidoo, whose career as a professional football player, stockbroker and venture capitalist has been overshadowed by the revelation he paid $200,000 to fix his sons’ college entrance exams, was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in prison.