Fallen Wall Street Lawyer Gets One Month in College Scandal
- Ex-Willkie chair Caplan approached sentencing as ‘broken man’
- He paid to fix child’s ACT score; U.S. wanted eight-month term
Gordon Caplan exits federal court in Boston on May 21.
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On a phone call with the mastermind of the biggest college-admissions scam in U.S. history, Gordon Caplan asked what would happen if his daughter got caught cheating on her entrance exam.
“I’m not worried about the moral issues here,” Caplan, then co-chairman of the prestigious New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, said with a laugh, according to an FBI transcript of the call. “I’m worried about the, if she’s caught doing that, you know, she’s finished.”