BOSTON—A former senior executive at private equity firm TPG Capital was sentenced on Wednesday to three months in prison for participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $50,000 to rig his son’s college entrance exam results. Prosecutors said Bill McGlashan, the former managing partner of TPG Growth and co-founder of The Rise Fund, paid to ensure that a corrupt test administrator would allow an associate to supervise his son’s ACT exam and secretly correct his answers. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton in Boston said McGlashan, 57, had tried to steal a spot at a prestigious university from a more deserving applicant, and that his sentence would show that “even the rich and famous cannot avoid the rule of law.” “You have let your enormous wealth, privilege and pride overwhelm all of what you want to stand for by your works of charity and philanthropy,” Gorton told …
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- September 2013
- July 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- December 1
-
Meta