After rigging the test scores of children who came from affluent and powerful families, Igor Dvorskiy, administrator of a small school in West Hollywood, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering in a Boston courtroom yesterday according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Dvorskiy admitted to pocketing nearly $150,000 from William “Rick” Singer, a Newport Beach, Calif. consultant infamous for his central role in the college admissions scandal, the Times reported.
Singer worked out of Dvorskiy’s school for years, running a text-fixing scam.
“I can make scores happen,” Singer once told a Greenwich lawyer during a wiretapped phone call, “and nobody on the planet can get scores to happen.”
Children of wealthy clientele would take their college-entrance exams at Dvorskiy’s West Hollywood College Preparatory School where Singer’s accomplice, Harvard-alumnus Mark Riddell, would either feed them answers or change their responses once finished, the Times reported.
Parents would pay an upwards of $15,000 to $75,000 per test to Singer, roughly $10,000 of which Dvorskiy pocketed. From March 2017 to February 2019, ACT and SAT exams were rigged on 11 different occasions, allowing Dvorskiy to collect nearly $150,000 in total from Singer.
“Any disagreement of those facts?” asked U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in court after reading the charges in court.
