Her son's application falsely portrayed him as African American, Latino and the first in his family to attend college. Now, the mom faces a 3-week prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud
A federal judge handed down a three-week prison sentence for Marjorie Klapper, a white Menlo Park mother whose son applied to college with a fraudulent ACT score and an application that falsely portrayed him as African American, Latino and the first in his family to attend college.
The judge also sentenced Klapper to 250 hours of community service and she must pay a $9,500 fine. Following her prison term, she will spend one year on supervised release.Klapper’s son took his ACT in October 2017 at a West Hollywood private school where Singer had bribed an administrator to permit an accomplice, Mark Riddell, to correct the boy’s answers once he had finished.percentile, Klapper and Singer embarked on another scam, Justin O’Connell, an assistant U.S.
Through her attorneys, Klapper had asked Talwani to spare her prison and impose a sentence of four months of home confinement, a $20,000 fine and community service. Klapper has already been punished, her attorneys wrote in a sentencing memorandum, having been “required to endure the shock and humiliation” of being arrested by armed law enforcement agents at 5 a.m. on March 12.
Klapper’s son also suffers from seizures and has a learning disability, her attorneys said. Having seen him struggle, Klapper chose to doctor his exams because she “wanted him to feel like a ‘regular’ student,” they said. Her motives were “maternal,” her sentencing memo says, even if their execution was “misguided and illegal.”
A ninth parent, Robert Flaxman, will be sentenced Friday. Prosecutors want the Beverly Hills real estate developer to spend eight months in prison, but his attorneys have requested two years of supervised release, community service and a fine.Sartorio, a Menlo Park packaged foods entrepreneur, was spared prison last week, and ordered instead to serve 250 hours of community service, pay a $9,500 fine and spend a year on probation.
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