Greenwich dad s role in college admissions scandal front and center in new Netflix documentary
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Greenwich attorney Gordon Caplan exits after his sentencing at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Caplan was sentenced to one month in prison for paying $75,000 to improve his daughter s scores on a college admissions test. He was busted as part of the Varsity Blues federal sting operation that ensnared 50 people in crimes involving bribery and manipulating college entrance exam scores.File / Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
GREENWICH High-powered corporate attorney Gordon Caplan sealed his fate in a dimly lit, book-lined Greenwich home office, according to the new Netflix documentary, “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal.”
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It happened pre-pandemic and the famous people involved got off with the gentlest of wrist-slaps, so you’d be forgiven for pushing the name “Operation Varsity Blues” out of your head to make room for more important things, but that was the codename law enforcement gave to what later became known as the “college admissions scandal.” That was when dozens of rich people including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were charged with taking part in an elaborate (but also not-so-elaborate) scheme to cheat on college entrance exams (because if there’s one thing the children of rich people need in America it’s a leg up on everyone else).