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0 pointsapkessl17y ago0 comments

Statutory limit is actually 20 years, under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341

In practice, most of the defendants would be likely to get under 5 years assuming this is their first offense, don’t commit further crimes, etc.

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scrumper7y ago

Oww. Lots of plea bargains coming up I am sure. Don't think any of the parents would make a particular sympathetic defendant in front of a jury.

Matt Levine today framed it rather neatly as a property crime, in that the dodgy charity guy and the coaches stole those selective admissions slots from the universities and sold them on to the parents. (Those parents of course being fully aware that other people would be taking test on their kids' behalf, so they are hardly victims.)

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0 pointsapkessl17y ago0 comments

Statutory limit is actually 20 years, under 18 U.S.C. § 1341 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341

In practice, most of the defendants would be likely to get under 5 years assuming this is their first offense, don’t commit further crimes, etc.

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scrumper7y ago

Oww. Lots of plea bargains coming up I am sure. Don't think any of the parents would make a particular sympathetic defendant in front of a jury.

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