Mom Gets Three Weeks in Test Scandal, Accused of Faking Race
- California jeweler paid $15,000 to fix her son’s ACT scores
- U.S. claimed she also falsified ethnicity as black, Hispanic
Marjorie Klapper, center, leaves court in Boston on March 29, 2019.
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A California woman who admitted paying $15,000 to rig her son’s college entrance exam scores got three weeks in prison after a federal judge said she compounded her crime by falsifying the boy’s ethnicity on his applications and by an earlier act of deception.
“I do find the offense here slightly more troubling” than that of Felicity Huffman, the “Desperate Housewives” star sentenced last month to two weeks behind bars, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said in court in Boston on Wednesday.