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PICTURED: The CEO's daughter and Georgetown student who allegedly gloated about cheating on her SATs after her parents 'paid more than $1MILLION to get her into the school'

By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com01:51 EDT 13 Mar 2019, updated 09:24 EDT 13 Mar 2019

 

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• Isabelle Henriquez allegedly knew her parents were bribing her way into school
• Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez allegedly paid $25,000 to have a 'proctor' sit with her during the SAT exam in October 2015
• The proctor allegedly sat 'side-by-side' with Isabelle and provided her answers to the test, then 'gloated' with her and Elizabeth about 'the fact they had cheated' 
• Henriquez and his wife also allegedly paid Gordon Ernst, the school's tennis coach, $950,000 to designate their daughter as a recruit for the team
• This was despite fact that Isabelle had never played in a high school tournament 
• She claimed to play 'club tennis' for 20 hours per week/year and said she had a 'Top 50 ranking' in the United States Tennis Association Junior Girls Tennis 

The college admissions scandal that has swept up celebrities and CEOs largely leaves out the children who benefited from their parents' bribes - except for one. Documents reveal that Isabelle Henriquez gloated about cheating on the SATs after her parents paid more than $1 million dollars to get her into Georgetown University.

Isabelle is the daughter of Manuel Henriquez, chairman and CEO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, and Elizabeth Henriquez. 

The couple were among the 50 people, including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, who have been accused of paying bribes to get their children into America's top colleges.

And now Isabelle, currently a junior at Georgetown, could face expulsion. 

 

 

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Charging documents claim that Isabelle Henriquez gloated about cheating on the SATs after her parents paid more than a million dollars to get her into Georgetown University

 

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Manuel Henriquez, chairman and CEO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, and his wife Elizabeth are among the 50 people who have been accused of paying bribes to get their children into America's top colleges 

Henriquez and his wife allegedly paid at least $425,000 to Key Worldwide Foundation, which was run by William Rick Singer. 

Singer is the alleged mastermind behind the bribery scandal. Documents claim that since 2011, Singer has received $25million from parents to bribe individuals who could pave their children's way into elite schools including Yale, Stanford, and UCLA.

In his biography on the website for the Newport Beach-based Key Foundation, Singer is heralded for his ability to get children into the college of their choice.

Singer is also praised for 'helping students discover their life passion, and guiding them along with their families through the complex college admissions maze'. 

The scheme was uncovered by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, who discovered the affluent parents involved had paid a total of $6million in bribes to get their children into elite schools.

Most of those charged either paid to get higher SAT scores or faked an athletic resume that, with the participation of a bribed college coach, helped the children get accepted to a college as a team's recruit. 

In many instances the children were unaware that their parents had paid these bribes, according to federal documents. 

But this doesn't seem to be the case with Isabelle. 

Henriquez and his wife allegedly paid Singer $25,000 to have a 'proctor' sit with her during the SAT exam in October 2015. 

The couple paid for the proctor to be flown to San Francisco to help Isabelle with the college admissions test at her private all-girls Catholic school, Notre Dame High School, in Belmont. 

 

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Charging documents claim that 'unbeknownst to the school', the proctor 'sat side-by-side' with Isabelle during the exam and 'provided her with answers to the questions'. 'After the exam, he "gloated" with Elizabeth Henriquez and her daughter about the fact that they had cheated and gotten away with it,' states the complaint, which does not refer to Isabelle by name. 

Isabelle received a score of 1900 out of 2400, which was a 320-point improvement on her previous score. 

But her parents didn't allegedly stop at her SAT scores when it came to ensuring their daughter would be admitted to the prestigious Washington DC school. 

Henriquez and his wife also paid Gordon Ernst, the school's tennis coach, $950,000 to designate their daughter as a recruit for the team, according to the documents. 

 

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Henriquez and his wife allegedly paid $25,000 to have a 'proctor' sit with Isabelle and feed her the answers during the SAT exam at her private all-girls Catholic school Notre Dame (pictured) in Belmont, California in October 2015

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• This was despite the fact that Isabelle did not play a single tennis tournament in high school. 

Isabelle wrote in her application that she played 'club tennis' all through high school for 20 hours per week and 52 weeks per year, the documents claim. 

 

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Henriquez and his wife also allegedly paid Gordon Ernst, Georgetown's tennis coach, $950,000 to designate their daughter as a recruit for the team

She claimed to have a 'Top 50 ranking' in the United States Tennis Association Junior Girls Tennis for her sophomore through senior years of high school, and said she was on the UTSA All-Academic Team for tennis during her junior and senior years as well. 

'In fact, records obtained from the USTA do not show that she played at any USTA tournaments in high school,' the documents state.  

'At her best, she appears to have ranked 207th in Northern California in the under-12 girls division, with an overall win/loss record of 2-8.'

Isabelle was allegedly encouraged to rewrite her college application essay to reflect her so-called passion and commitment to tennis. 

In the essay, Isabelle writes about practicing for 'three to four hours a day...with the hopes of becoming successful enough to play college tennis, especially at Georgetown'. 

In a separate letter to Ernst, Isabelle claimed she had been 'really successful this summer playing tennis around the country'. 

 

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Isabelle is currently a Spanish and Iberian studies major at Georgetown and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority

'I am looking forward to having a chance to be part of the Georgetown tennis team and make a positive contribution to your team's success,' she added. 

After Isabelle was admitted to Georgetown in May 2016, the Henriquez Family Trust 'donated' $400,000 to Key Worldwide Foundation. Isabelle is currently a Spanish and Iberian studies major at Georgetown and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. 

She is the president of 'Hoya Helpers', a tutoring organization for middle school students in Georgetown, and also studied abroad in Spain, according to her LinkedIn page.

 

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Felicity Huffman (pictured leaving court on Tuesday) has been released on $250,000 bond after she was charged in the massive college admissions bribery scandal on Tuesday 

 

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Lori Loughlin (pictured with her daughters) and her husband Mossimo Giannulli have also been implicated in the bribery scandal 

Isabelle previously interned at her father's company, and is listed as a current investment banking intern at Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC and an incoming summer wealth management analyst at Jeffries Financial Group. 

A blog entry obtained by Daily Beast found that Isabelle described herself as 'very independent and not dependent on others when I need things'. 

'I also find that I have a good moral compass,' she added.   

Georgetown officials said they are reviewing details of the indictment and 'will be taking appropriate action'. 

THE FULL LIST OF PEOPLE CHARGED WITH COLLEGE ADMITTANCE SCAM

THE STARS

 

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Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli spent $500,000 getting their two daughters into USC, according to prosecutors

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli

Actress Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo are among the three most well known names on the list. They have two daughters, Olivia, 20, Isabella, 19, and Mossimo also has a son from a previous relationship. It is not clear which of their children is in college.  

Olivia is a YouTube star who has amounted millions of fans online but she is also enrolled at USC, as is their 19-year-old daughter Isabella. 

They allegedly paid $50,000 to get their oldest daughter into USC under the guise that she was a crew coxswain when in fact she does not row crew. 

 

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Felicity Huffman is accused of paying a $15,000 bribe to get her oldest daughter Sofia into USC

Felicity Huffman 

Huffman is best known for her role on Desperate Housewives. 

She is married to fellow actor William H. Macy but he has not been charged in the indictment. 

The pair have two daughters, Sofia, 18, and Georgia, 16.

Huffman is accused of paying $15,000  to have her daughter's exam proctored by Mark Riddell. 

Riddell was described by authorities as 'just a really smart guy' who would either sit tests for students, change their answers afterwards or help them actively while they took it in one of two test centers that was 'controlled' by the scheme's 'mastermind' Rick Singer. 

Huffman allegedly used the scheme in December 2017 but the indictment does not specify how Riddell allegedly helped her daughter. 

She considered using it for her youngest daughter, Georgia, but decided in the end that she did not need to, according to authorities.  

THE COLLEGE PROFESSORS, COACHES AND 'MASTERMIND'

 

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Rick Singer ran The Key, a college preparation business

William Rick Singer, the 'mastermind' 

Singer is accused of leading the scam. 

He led a college counseling program and, according to prosecutors, also ran a fake charity through which he funneled bribes.

The scam worked in two ways; he would have people come into the exam to correct students' answers and he also then bribed sports coaches to offer them scholarships, in some cases for sports they did not even play. 

Singer cooperated with authorities as part of the investigation and continued taking bribes after he had been contacted by police. 

Some of his conversations were recorded by police who obtained a wire tap to listen in. He is facing a maximum of 65 years behind bars and has pleaded guilty on all counts he was charged with. 

It remains unclear if he will be given leniency given his cooperation. 

Rudolph Meredith 

Meredith is a women's soccer coach at Yale. In his bio on the college's website, he is heralded as the 'winningest' coach, with 24 seasons under his belt. 

Mark Riddell 

Riddell is the director of IMG Academy , a college entrance exam preparation company.  

 

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Rudolph Meredith, the women's soccer coach at Yale

 

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Mark Riddell, the director of IMG Academy

John Vandemoer 

Vandemoer is the head sailing coach at Stanford.   

Gordon Ernst 

Ernst is the head of women's tennis at the University of Rhode Island. 

He taught at Georgetown in the past and worked as a personal tennis coach for Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia, while they were in the White House. 

 

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John Vandemoer is the head sailing coach at Stanford 

 

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Gordie Ernst was Michelle Obama's private tennis coach when she was First Lady. He is now the head of women's tennis at the University of Rhode Island.

Igor Dvorskiy

Dvorskiy is the president of the West Hollywood College Preparatory School and he worked at the West Hollywood Test Center

Niki Williams 

Williams worked as a test administrator at one of the test centers Singer told parents he 'controlled'.  

Houmayoun Zadeg

Homa H Zadeh is a professor at USC. He is the Associate Professor and Director, Advanced Education Program in Periodontology. 

Michael Center

Center is the men's soccer coach at the University of Texas.  

 

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Homa H. Zadeh, a profesor at USC

 

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Michael Center, the men's soccer coach at University of Texas

 

Donna Heinel 

Heinel is the senior women's athletics director at USC. She is alleged to have accepted a $50,000 from Lori Loughlin and her husband, among others, for admitting fraudulent tests.

Laura Janke 

Janke is a former assistant soccer coach at USC. She allegedly took payment from Loughlin and her husband for their youngest daughter. 

 

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Donna Heinel is the senior athletic director at USC

 

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Laura Janke is a former assistant soccer coach at USC 

Ali Khosroshahin 

Khosroshahin is the head women's soccer coach at USC. 

Jovan Vavic

Vavic is the head coach for the men's and women's water polo teams at USC. 

 

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Ali Khosroshahin is the head women's soccer coach at USC

 

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Jovan Vavic is the head of men's and women's water polo teams at USC 

PARENTS 

Bill McGlashan  

McGlashan is a prolific private equity investor who is the founder and managing partner of the firm TPG Growth. 

He is also at the helm of The Rise Fund, a social impact fund he launched with Bono. 

 

Gregory and Marcia Abbott 

New York couple Gregory and Marcia Abbott, 68 and 59, were also named. 

Gregory Abbott is the founder and chairman of International Dispensing Corp., a successful food and beverage packaging company. 

The couple, who have homes in New York City and Aspen, Colorado, allegedly paid a total of $125,000 to have someone take the ACT and SAT subject tests for their daughter so she could gain entrance to Duke University. 

 

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Bill McGlashan

 

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Gregory Abbott

Gamal Abdelaziz

Abdelaziz stepped down as president and COO of Wynn Resorts in 2016.

He is accused of bribing Donna Heinel, the senior women's athletics director at USC, to recruit his daughter for the basketball team in 2017. 

According to court documents, his daughter played high school basketball but was not gifted enough to get recruited as an athlete so he arranged for her to be one.  

He then made a $300,000 'donation' to the fictitious charity run by 'ringleader' Rick Singer and then made monthly $20,000 payments directly to Heinel. 

His daughter got into the college but never joined the basketball team, according to the documents. 

In a phone call with the fixer, they said: 'I’m not going to tell the IRS anything about the fact that your $300,000 was paid to Donna-- Donna Heinel at USC to get [your daughter] into school even though she wasn’t a legitimate basketball player at that level.'   

Jane Buckingham 

Buckingham is the owner of the now defunct market research firm, Youth Intelligence.  She sold the company in 2003. 

She is charged in the scheme for allegedly paying $50,000 to have someone else take her son's ACT exam in July 2018 because he had tonsilitis. 

Buckingham sent a handwriting sample for her son to a test taker and had him take a fake exam at home so he wouldn't know about the fraud, court documents indicate. 

 

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Gamal Abdelaziz

 

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Jane Buckingham

Gordon Caplan

Caplan is a financial attorney and partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York City. He lives in Connecticut.

He allegedly paid $75,000 to have Singer arrange a proctor to corrected his daughter's answers after she took the ACT in November or December 2018. 

 

Robert Flaxman 

Flaxman is the CEO, Co-founder, Crown Realty & Development, Inc, a real estate company based in Orange County. 

 

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Gordon Caplan

 

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Robert Flaxman

Agustin Huneeus 

Vineyard owner Huneeus owns a range of wines that are produced in Napa Valley. 

He allegedly participated in both the college entrance exam cheating scheme and the college recruitment scheme for his daughter in 2017 and 2018 by conspiring to bribe Heinel and Jovan Vavic, the USC water polo coach, to facilitate his daughter’s admission to USC as a purported water polo recruit, according to the indictment. 

Elisabeth Kimmel 

Kimmel, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the former president of Midwest Television. She sold it in 2017 for $325million. 

She allegedly used the scheme to get her daughter into Georgetown and her son into USC by pretending the former was a tennis player and the latter was a pole vaulter. 

Kimmel ultimately facilitated $475,000 in payments to KWF, according to the affidavit.  

Toby MacFarlane 

MacFarlane and his wife Christy are well known on the San Diego social and charity circuit. 

He sits on the board of multiple companies and the family has their own trust but it is not exactly clear what he does. 

 

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Elisabeth Kimmel 

 

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Agustin Huneeus

 

Marjorie Klapper 

Diane and Todd Blake 

I-Hsin "Joey" Chen  

Amy and Gregory Colburn 

Marci Palatella 

Peter Jan Sartorio 

Stephen Semprevivo 

Devin Sloane 

John Wilson

Robert Zangrillo 

Steven Masera 

William Ferguson 

Martin Fox

Jorge Salcedo 

Bruce and Davina Isackson 

Mikaela Sanford

David Sidoo

Michelle Janavs  

 

Elizabeth and Manuel Henriquez

Douglas Hodge 

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