give their children every legitimate advantage in the college admissions game instead chose to corrupt and illegally manipulate the system for their benefit. we are not talking about donating a building so that a school is more likely to take your son or daughter. we are talking about deception and fraud, fake test scores, fake athletic credentials, fake photographs, bribed college officials. as you can see from the various charging documents unsealed today in this case, the investigation was complex and extremely labor intensive. two defends will plead guilty this afternoon. as i mentioned before, william singer will plead guilty at 2:30 today in this courthouse and john vander mort who is the head sailing coach at stanford university will also plead guilty today at 3 p.m. i want to thank the four prosecutors in my office who were assigned to this investigation for their extraordinary work on this case.
really mind boggling. what they are accused of doing is really offensive to anybody who went through the regular process of trying to get into one of these schools. some of the people charged are people who worked at the schools. some of the coaches at the schools were also involved which explains how these people got through. one other interesting thing is listed singer who was the architect of the scheme and owner of the test prep company is charged in what is called in information. it usually means the person is cooperating with authorities. that is of course one question that comes up is how did this case begin? how did they uncover this key foundation? and who is cooperating? it is usually not the top guy. they usually don t cooperate the architect of the scheme. that is one thing to look out for. as i m looking at the
two of the defendants live in this state. a lot of the activities, phone calls, meetings did happen here. and we frankly had the resources and the sophistication to take down a case of this magnitude. [ inaudible question ] this is still ongoing. the 33 parents that we have charged, their children were able to get in somewhere. there are more than that, but i m not prepared to give you a total. i m sorry. is anything going to happen to the students? there are two aspects to that question. what is the reaction of the schools they go to? we leave that to the schools. as to charges against them,
children. this is a case where they flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to cheat the system so they can set their children up for success with the best education money can buy literally. some spent anywhere from $200,000 to $6.5 million for guaranteed admission. their actions were without a doubt insidious, selfish and sha shameful. and the real victims in this case are the hard working students who did everything they could to set themselves up for success in the college admissions process but ended up being shut out because far less qualified students and their families simply bought their way in. what s also a cause for concern is how this was even allowed to happen in the first place. p evidence we have obtained shows that trusted coaches and administrators manipulated the system has the universities had in place to accommodate students
it varied. some simply never showed up for the athletics. some pretended an injury, and i think some played briefly and then quit. one of the defendants [ inaudible ] beyond what s in the complaint, i can t tell you about that. are any of the students still currently enrolled, parents of the children that were charged? as you ll see from the charging documents, most of this activity is fairly current, so i assume i can t tell you directly that the vast majority of the students admitted under false pretenses are in these schools and are enrolled and are active students. [ inaudible question ] i don t know the answer to that. i can tell you that based on what i ve seen in the charging documents, i don t think that s the case. i think they got admission, but i don t think they got separate athletic scholarships. what singer was good at doing