From Bloomberg: Seven Long Island, New York, students were charged with taking part in a scheme in which six of them paid the seventh to take the SAT college-admissions test on their behalf, prosecutors said.
Six current or former students at Great Neck North High School, about 20 miles east of Manhattan, are accused of paying Samuel Eshaghoff, 19, of Great Neck, to impersonate them so they could get higher scores on the test, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen M. Rice said in a statement.
Eshaghoff, a 2010 Great Neck North graduate, now attends Emory University in Atlanta after spending his freshman year at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Rice’s office said. He was paid $1,500 to $2,000 for each test, and took the exam for free for a female student.
Eshaghoff surrendered yesterday and was charged with scheme to defraud in the first degree, six counts of falsifying business records in the second degree and six counts of criminal impersonation in the second degree. He faces as long as four years in prison if convicted….
Find out more at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/seven-ny-students-charged-in-sat-scheme.html
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