In the fall of 2017, William Rick Singer, college admission fraudster for the rich and famous, sat in the Los Angeles home of actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman and laid out a plan to scam their oldest daughter into college, according to a federal indictment released Tuesday.

It was what Singer often told parents was “the side door” to college and he did not lack for what federal prosecutors called “a catalog of wealth and privilege” willing to pay for entrance. That includes actresses Huffman ("Desperate Housewives") and Lori Loughlin ("Full House"), each of whom was indicted by the U.S. Attorney in Boston Tuesday on conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services fraud.

Below is a detailed account, culled from the indictments, on what Huffman, Loughlin and Loughlin’s husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, the case’s most prominent names, are charged with doing in what the feds call a widespread scam that allowed the wealthy to cheat the less fortunate out of elite college admission slots.

Singer owned a company, disguised as a charity, called “The Edge College and Career Network”, dubbed “The Key.” As he explained to Macy and Huffman, The Key was not legit. Singer is expected to plead guilty to racketeering and other charges Tuesday and was a cooperating witness in the case.

As Singer told Huffman and Macy, he “controlled” an SAT test center in West Hollywood, California.

Singer had an arrangement where he “bribed the test administrators to allow a third party to take the exams in place of the actual students, to serve as a purported proctor for the exams while providing students with the correct answers, or to review and correct the students’ answers after they completed the exams.”

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Singer would pay test administrators $10,000 per student to allow this to happen. He would charge parents between $15,000 and $75,000. Often, the students taking the exam didn’t even know what was going on or that their parents had arranged the alleged fraud. When a nice score came back, they assumed they achieved it honestly.

Singer had a man from Florida who was a standardized testing master. According to the FBI, he could essentially score whatever number was requested, from a perfect 1600 on down.

Huffman and Macy’s daughter had scored only about 1000 on the PSAT, which didn’t bode well for her getting into an elite university.

First, Huffman needed to have their daughter follow the blueprint of gaining “medical documentation” that she suffered from a learning disability that would grant her “extended time” to take the test, even over the course of two days. Once that was done, they could request she take the test at the West Hollywood Test Center that Singer “controlled.”

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Huffman got that done around Oct. 16, 2017, but a counsellor at her daughter’s high school said they would proctor the test “on Dec. 4th and 5th and that’s the process in a nutshell.” The plan seemed to be failing.

“Ruh Ro!” Huffman emailed Singer. “Looks like [my daughter’s high school] wants to proctor.”

Singer told Huffman to tell the counsellor that her daughter would take the test on Dec. 2 and 3 in West Hollywood because those were weekend dates and thus she wouldn’t miss any school. The counsellor agreed. Problem averted.

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