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   A year ago, the feel-good Hollywood couple Felicity Huffman and   
   William H. Macy made a $15,000 donation to the Key Worldwide   
   Foundation. A bookkeeper for the charity wrote back saying that   
   the money would help “provide educational and self-enrichment   
   programs to disadvantaged youth.”   
      
   But the foundation, prosecutors said on Tuesday, was little more   
   than a conduit for a massive SAT-fixing and college admissions-   
   rigging scheme. And the youth helped by the payment was far from   
   disadvantaged: She was the couple’s elder daughter.   
      
   The Justice Department unsealed indictments Tuesday accusing   
   admissions advisers, coaches and school officials of offering   
   wealthy families one of two back doors into the colleges of   
   their choice.   
      
   [Fifty people were charged in the widespread scam to get   
   undeserving students into colleges.]   
      
   One method involved bribing university officials to pass off   
   applicants as athletic recruits even if they weren’t; the other   
   used brazen cheating on standardized exams. And both schemes had   
   Hollywood stars playing a role.   
      
   Ms. Huffman’s career in Hollywood stretches back to the 1970s.   
   Her performance as Bree, the transgender main character in   
   “Transamerica,” earned her an Oscar nomination in 2006. But much   
   of her work has been in television. She is best known for roles   
   including Lynette Scavo in “Desperate Housewives” and Dana   
   Whitaker in the Aaron Sorkin show “Sports Night” as well as for   
   several roles in the ABC show “American Crime.” Most recently,   
   Ms. Huffman, 56, played Special Agent Clara Dillard in Epix’s   
   “Get Shorty.”   
      
   In 1997, she married Mr. Macy, the same year he was nominated   
   for an Oscar, after he starred in “Fargo.” Mr. Macy, 68, a   
   veteran of many movies, currently plays Frank Gallagher, the   
   head of the dysfunctional family in the Showtime comedy series   
   “Shameless.” They have two daughters: The elder was born in   
   2000, and the younger two years later.   
      
   According to the authorities, William Singer, the head of a   
   college preparatory business and the founder of the charity, met   
   with Ms. Huffman and Mr. Macy in their Los Angeles home and   
   explained how he could help them. Mr. Singer, who has pleaded   
   guilty and is cooperating with investigators — he is identified   
   as “cooperating witness 1” in the Justice Department complaint —   
   said he could arrange for their daughter’s SAT proctor to   
   secretly correct her wrong answers and boost her score. “CW-1   
   has advised investigators that Huffman and her spouse agreed to   
   the plan,” the complaint said.   
      
   Following Mr. Singer’s instructions, Ms. Huffman had her   
   daughter seek permission to get extra time on the SAT, an option   
   available to students with learning disabilities or other needs.   
   Once the girl received the permission, Mr. Singer instructed Ms.   
   Huffman to have her daughter take the test in December 2017 with   
   a proctor who was in on the scheme. (He is cooperating witness   
   No. 2.)   
      
   At first, when it appeared that a different proctor from her   
   daughter’s own high school would be involved, Ms. Huffman   
   emailed Mr. Singer: “Ruh Ro!” They soon got the plan back on   
   track by using another test site where, according to the   
   complaint, the crooked proctor would be present.   
      
   Less than two months ago, Parade published an interview with Mr.   
   Macy, in which he spoke of his older daughter’s college search.   
   “We’re right now in the thick of college application time, which   
   is so stressful,” he said. “I am voting that once she gets   
   accepted, she maybe takes a year off.”   
      
   However stressful the process was, prosecutors believe the   
   cheating helped his daughter’s cause.   
      
   “Ultimately, Huffman’s daughter received a score of 1420 on the   
   SAT, an improvement of approximately 400 points over her PSAT,   
   taken without CW-2 one year earlier,” said the complaint,   
   referring to the Preliminary SAT.   
      
   It was unclear if their daughter has been admitted to any   
   colleges, or if she even knew, before Tuesday, about any   
   cheating on her behalf.   
      
      
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