. . . .According to the indictment, Willkie Farr co-chair Gordon Caplan paid $75,000 to college coaches turned government cooperating witnesses for a scheme to have someone else take an admissions exam for his daughter.
As part of the scheme, Caplan’s daughter would have to get an accommodation for an untimed exam — though there is no indication Caplan’s daughter actually had a learning difference to justify it — and then a professional test taker would swoop in and take the exam, getting her the scores necessary to get into her dream schools. . . .
Well. . . that’s disgusting. [Updated: Nothing indicates his firm knew of the scheme, to be clear. Which is why I expect he will be gone, to protect this fine firm's reputation.]
Onward.
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And. . . as of Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Caplan has been placed on leave, and relieved of all management duties at Wilkie Farr.
That's. . . the end -- now arriving (in slow motion, over the next twelve to eighteen months -- as his law license is. . . pulled).
To be honest, I feel pretty awful, for his daughter. What must she think? "My dad didn't believe in me enough to allow me to. . . take my own ACT?!"
Crazy.
These things have network effects. Somehow Mr. Caplan found his way to Mr. Singer's doorstep, likely from someone he knew that was a satisfied customer. Satisfied customers tell their friends and those friends tell others.
Thanks PB — it could be that Morrie Tobin was the connect. In time we shall likely. . . find out.
Namaste.
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