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Ukrainian turned out to be a defendant in the scandalous corruption scheme of admission to the best US colleges

A native of Ukraine, Igor Dvorsky, the director of a preparatory school from West Hollywood, was involved in a scandalous fraudulent scheme for admission to top US universities - dozens of parents, including American celebrities, paid bribes to ensure that their children were enrolled in prestigious educational institutions. Dvorsky received large sums for each student, for which he ensured that exam results were falsified.

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Igor Dvorsky, director of the preparatory school at West Hollywood College (WHCPS), was accused of accepting bribes in the amount of 10 000 dollars from a student for counterfeiting SAT / ACT exam results that were supposed to help young people go to prestigious colleges and universities, writes Russian los angeles.

Dvorsky’s biography on the preparatory school website reports that he plays a “vital role in the daily work and general work of the WHCP. Mr. Dvorsky is a director at WHCP for seven years. Prior to this position, he worked as a teacher in several subject areas for 10 for years, including physical education, mathematics, science, and computers. Mr. Dvorsky received two bachelor's degrees in engineering and education in the former Soviet Union.

According to the lawsuit from Dvorsky require 198 000 dollars. The school did not comment on the situation.

The West Hollywood College preparatory school was founded in 2000 by Dvorsky's mother, Elina, a teacher from Ukraine (until 2010, she was called the Dvorski Preparatory School).

Page of Elina Dvorsky on the school website. Photo: screenshot westhollywoodschool.com

The school offers classes from pre-school to 12 class, as well as day stay. According to the Beverly Press article for 2010 a year, about 100 children study there, and no more than 10 students per class.

The school, at first glance, is small and modest, but it was attended by relatives of celebrities - judging by an Instagram post from 2015, Anna, the sister of the Russian singer Dima Bilan, studied at this school.

“Children get the best from their teachers, and we try to find a personalized way of learning in each class,” Dvorsky told the publication at the time. — All classes take place in one place. It’s more of a European style of teaching.”

He added that his school is one of the few in the Los Angeles area that offers Russian language classes.

Dvorsky is one of 50 accused of participating in the scheme. In the center is William "Rick" Singer, owner of a college preparation company. According to investigators, since 2011, Singer received about $25 million from wealthy parents into the accounts of his formally charitable organization as bribes to guarantee the admission of children to elite universities.

Separate charges of tax evasion were filed against parents - payments were made as charitable donations, and therefore bribes paid to Singer were not taxed.

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Singer was charged with conspiracy to extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice. The case involves 31 parent and 18 administrators, examiners, and sports coaches from several large and prestigious American universities (including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California).

According to investigators, Singer helped his clients' children fraudulently to get higher scores on SAT / ACT tests for graduates. He advised clients to get a doctor's opinion that their children had learning problems: this gave adolescents extra time on tests and the opportunity to pass them separately from the rest of schoolchildren.

Next, parents had to change the test location: to a school in Houston, Texas, or in the vicinity of Los Angeles, California. There, the prosecution claims, Singer agreed with the test administrators, Nicky Williams and Igor Dvorsky. For amounts up to $ 10 000 for the test (customers paid Singer from $ 15000 to $ 75000 per test) Williams and Dvorsky, claims the prosecution, allowed third parties to take tests instead of those who were tested, or dictated the correct answers to adolescents, or corrected tests already written by applicants.

A copy of the indictment states that Singer, Dvorsky, and others involved in the case agreed that someone Mark Riddell from Palmetto, Florida, pass the SAT / ACT exams for students whose rich parents gave bribes.

The scheme attracted attention throughout the country, given the wide range of well-known colleges and the fact that celebrities such as actress Lori Loughlin, her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Jannoulli, and actress Felicity Huffman were involved in a corruption scandal.

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Laura Laughlin. Photo: Depositphotos

According to Los angeles magazineIt was Dvorsky who conducted the SAT test for the daughter of actress Felicity Huffman. She received 1420 points, “which was an improvement of about 400 points compared to her PSAT”, which was submitted a year earlier.

Felicity Huffman. Photo: Depositphotos

Fake applications have been filed with major colleges and universities, such as Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Wake Forest, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. The indictment alleges that employees of these schools took bribes.

The lawsuit states that Singer sent payments in the amount of 350 000 dollars to a privately owned football club controlled by Ali Hoshoshahin, a women's football coach at the University of Southern California, and Laura Yanke, an assistant coach. They created fake sports profiles for applicants wishing to be admitted as athletes. In general, the lawsuit states that “parents paid Singer about 25 million dollars for the period from 2011 to February 2019 of the year to bribe coaches and university administrators, to indicate their children as athletes or to write to other categories to get approval ...”. One of the parents is said to have laid out 1,2 million dollars for one child.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • In March, 2019, in the USA accused 50 of defendants in mass fraud cases when entering the leading universities of the country.
  • It is about the fraudulent scheme that parents paid organization that allegedly prepared applicants to enter the university. In fact, the staff of this organization passed the exam for applicants or corrected their answers.
  • The organization also bribed coaches of university teams to enroll students allegedly for their success in sports, regardless of their real abilities. Court documents also state that some defendants created fake testimonials about clients' sports achievements for clients.
  • Among the defendants were 33 parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Laurie Laughlin, trainers, an examiner, administrators of the organization to assist applicants and the administrator of a university. They were accused of conspiring to help applicants bypass established procedures.
  • Sports coaches from Yale University, Stanford, the University of Southern California, Wake Forest University and Georgetown University participated in the hoax.
  • American TV series star Lori Laughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Janully, paid singer 500 thousand dollars for bringing their daughters Olivia and Isabella to the University of Southern California. The girls were given for rowing masters.
  • 56-year-old Huffman - the star of the TV series "Desperate Housewives" and "American Crime", the owner of "Emmy", "Golden Globe" and the Screen Actors Guild Award, was involved in the scandal. Felicity Huffman is married to actor William Macy. The star couple has two daughters: 18-year-old Sofia and Georgia, whose 14 March will be 17. It was precisely because of maternal love for Sofia that the “desperate housewife” came under investigation.
  • For a good SAT result for Sofia paid singer 15 thousand dollars. According to the materials of the case, the father also helped his daughter. For some reason, however, no charges were brought against William Macy.
  • The rich parents of one girl wanted so much to arrange a daughter at Yale University that they paid Singer for the services of 1,2 a million dollars. And he, in turn, made a football star out of a client and arranged her for the university's women's football team.
  • The press recalled the case of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the US president: he was accepted to Harvard soon after Charles Kushner, Jared's father, donated $ 2,5 million to the university. At the same time, the applicant did not have outstanding test results.
  • Two Stanford students sued the universities mentioned in the indictment. The girls believe that the fraud reduced their chances of honest entry to Yale and the University of Southern California, and the scandal will affect the value of their diplomas.
  • The indictment states that the crimes were committed between 2011 and 2019.
  • The prosecutor's office notes that in many cases the children did not know about the fraudulent scheme.

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