Marcia Abbott and Gregory Abbott leave federal court May 22 in Boston after pleading guilty in the admissions bribery scandal. (Michael Dwyer/AP)A married couple who paid $125,000 in a scheme to boost their daughter’s college admission test scores were both sentenced to a month in prison Tuesday in the admissions bribery scandal, prosecutors announced. They had each pleaded guilty in May to one count of fraud conspiracy. “They’re much harder.”“Yeah, well they’re very specialized,” Marcia Abbott replied, according to the records. In a separate letter, Marcia Abbott wrote the judge: “I understand the outrage of those who saw us as trying to game the system.

Source: Washington Post October 08, 2019 18:53 UTC