Ex-Willkie Co-Chair Gordon Caplan Gets Prison Term in College Admissions Case
Caplan, whose lawyers had asked a federal judge to spare him any time behind bars, will serve one month in prison.
October 03, 2019 at 12:54 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
Gordon Caplan, the former co-chairman of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, was sentenced to one month in federal prison on Thursday for paying a college admissions consultant to rig his daughter's ACT score.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts said the interests of general deterrence drove the need for Caplan to serve time behind bars. The sentence was below the eight months prosecutors asked for, but dashed Caplan's hopes for a non-custodial sentence.
He was ordered to report to prison on November 6. In addition to the prison time, Talwani ordered Caplan to pay a $50,000 fine and to serve one year of supervised release. His sentence also includes community service.
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