May 27, 2021 A California insurance and private equity executive was sentenced today in connection with using fraud and bribery to cheat on the ACT exam on behalf of his daughter.
Boston A former senior executive at TPG Capital, a global private equity firm, has agreed to plead guilty in connection with his involvement in the college admissions case, announced Ramsey E. Covington, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service s Criminal Investigations in Boston.
William E. McGlashan, Jr. has agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and honest services wire fraud. A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled.
McGlashan, the former managing partner of TPG Growth and co-founder of The Rise Fund, will plead guilty to his role in a scheme to defraud ACT, Inc. by paying William Rick Singer $50,000 to bribe Igor Dvorskiy, a corrupt test administrator, to allow Mark Riddell, a corrupt test proctor, to secretly correct McGlashan s son s exam answers to obtain a fraudulently inflated score.
Boston, MA - A former employee of the Houston Independent School District was sentenced today in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate cheating on the ACT and SAT exams, announced Joleen Simpson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service s Criminal Investigations in Boston.
Niki D. Williams, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to one year of probation and ordered to pay forfeiture of $12,500. The government recommended a sentence of six months in prison and one year of supervised release. In September 2020, Williams pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and honest services wire fraud and mail fraud.
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