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   “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman was desperate in   
   real life to see her older daughter go to college.   
      
   The award-winning actress made no secret of her academic   
   aspirations for daughter Sofia Grace Macy, tweeting a photo of   
   herself and “Shameless” star husband William H. Macy walking   
   hand-in-hand along a tree-lined campus quad in December 2017.   
      
   “Visiting colleges with our 17 year old. Makes me nostalgic   
   .?.?. WHILE ITS HAPPENING!” she wrote.   
      
   But behind the scenes, Huffman, 56, was secretly scheming with a   
   crooked college counselor, William “Rick” Singer, to illegally   
   boost Sofia’s score on the crucial SAT exams by 400 points,   
   according to the feds.   
      
   Singer, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy   
   and other crimes, began cooperating with authorities in late   
   September and helped them gather evidence, including against   
   Huffman, according to court papers.   
      
   Huffman was among 33 wealthy parents charged Tuesday with   
   conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud   
   in a pair of related scams to cheat on college-entrance exams   
   and corruptly recruit student athletes.   
      
   Others accused of paying to illegally inflate their kids’ test   
   scores include Gordon Caplan, co-chairman of the white-shoe law   
   firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Gregory and Marcia Abbott,   
   whose daughter received a perfect 800 on the math SAT and 710 on   
   the literature portion despite actually scoring in the “mid-   
   600s,” court papers say.   
      
   Much of the cheating was allegedly performed by Harvard grad   
   Mark Riddell, who at the time was director of college entrance-   
   exam preparation at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.   
      
   Riddell, 36, would take SAT or ACT exams in place of the kids,   
   give them the answers they needed while proctoring their exams,   
   or review and correct wrong answers after the kids turned in   
   their tests, the feds charge.   
      
   In many cases, the kids were unaware the cheating was going on,   
   according to Boston US Attorney Andrew Lelling.   
      
   Riddell, who allegedly got $10,000 from Singer for each crooked   
   test, began cooperating with the feds last month and is   
   scheduled to plead guilty to conspiracy charges on April 12,   
   according to court records.   
      
   Parents who took part in the test-taking scam typically paid   
   Singer $15,000 to $75,000 per test, with the money funneled   
   through Singer’s IRS-approved charity, the Key Worldwide   
   Foundation of Newport Beach, Calif.   
      
   As part of the racket, the parents got letters from the   
   foundation that let them claim the payoffs as deductions against   
   their income taxes, according to Lelling.   
      
   In Huffman’s case, she and Macy allegedly met with Singer in   
   their Los Angeles home, where Singer explained how he could hire   
   someone to proctor Sofia’s SAT “and secretly correct her answers   
   afterward,” court papers charge.   
      
   During the summer of 2017, Huffman and Singer allegedly   
   exchanged a series of emails discussing how Huffman could get   
   “100 percent extra time” for her daughters to take the SAT, with   
   Huffman writing “Hurray! She got it,” on Oct. 16, 2017, when the   
   extra time was approved for Sofia.   
      
   The plan appeared to collapse the next day, court papers say,   
   when Huffman got an email from Sofia’s high school counselor,   
   who said the teen would have to take the test at the school   
   instead of a testing center that the feds say Singer controlled.   
      
   “Ruh ro! Looks like [my daughter’s high school] wants to provide   
   own proctor,” Huffman wrote.   
      
   But Huffman and Singer later agreed to tell the counselor that   
   Sofia would take the test on a weekend — “so that she would not   
   miss any school” — and had the location switched to a test   
   center in West Hollywood, court papers say.   
      
   There, Riddell “purported to proctor” Sofia’s exam, and when it   
   was graded, she got a score of 1420, according to the feds.   
      
   That was “an improvement over approximately 400 points over her   
   PSAT, taken without [Riddell] one year earlier,” the feds   
   claimed.   
      
      
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