All eyes are now on U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, who is overseeing the cases of 15 parents who have so far maintained their innocence in the college admissions scandal. That includes the actress Lori Loughlin.
It was a sentencing hearing for Toby Macfarlane, a Del Mar insurance executive who will spend six months in prison for conspiring to have his children admitted to USC as bogus athletic recruits.
Macfarlane’s conduct — paying Singer $450,000 to slip his son and daughter into USC as phony athletes — was “devastating,” Gorton said. Macfarlane’s crimes may have been possible because of his wealth, Gorton said, but his actions were no different than those of “a common thief.” Those parents’ attorneys have said they didn’t know where the money was going when they made six-figure payments to Singer or his sham charity. Macfarlane’s lawyer, Ted Cassman, said as much Wednesday.
The fraud perpetrated by Macfarlane, Singer and their co-defendants has also forced USC to fund costly investigations and hurt the school’s reputation, Rosen said. In a sign that defense attorneys see Gorton as handing down harsher sentences than his peers at the courthouse, lawyers for 17 parents charged in the scandal wrote an unusual letter in April to Patti B. Saris, the chief judge for the district of Massachusetts, protesting the government’s intent to add their clients to an indictment that had already been assigned to Gorton.
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