A Newport Beach woman has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting she plotted with William “Rick” Singer, the consultant at the center of the college admissions scandal, to have an employee take online classes for her son and submit them to Georgetown. Karen Littlefair will plead guilty by Jan. 17 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a plea agreement signed in November and unsealed Monday. She acknowledged paying Singer $9,000 for one of his employees to take four online courses for her son, a Georgetown student. Littlefair is the 36th parent charged in the admissions scandal by the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts. “The absence of such prior interceptions would prove he was lying,” Martin Weinberg, an attorney for two charged parents, told prosecutors in a letter.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 09, 2019 21:33 UTC