ADMISSIONS SCAM.
THE LEAD SCHEME INCLUDES
BRIBERY AND PHONY TEST RESULTS
TO GET INTO ELITE SCHOOLS.
TONIGHT WE ARE HEARING FROM
A FORMER CLIENT OF RICK SINGER,
THE ONE-TIME COLLEGE BASE
COUNSELOR WHO HAS PLEADED
GUILTY TO MASK RUNNING A
COLLEGE BRIBERY SCAM.
TO BE SUDDENLY A CHEATER TO
THE SCAR STARS IS QUITE A FLIP.
20 YEARS AGO HER FAMILY
HIRED RICK SINGER TO HELP HER
WITH HER COLLEGE APPLICATIONS.
SHE SAID SINGER DID NOT HELP
HER CHEAT HER WAY INTO SCHOOL.
Reporter: I HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THIS
WOMAN WHO WAS A MOTHER OF TWO.
SHE IS SHOCKED TO SEE HER
FORMER COLLEGE COUNSELOR AT THE
CENTER OF THIS CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION IS IS IN
HINDSIGHT, HER FAMILY BELIEVES
THEY SAW SIGNS HE WAS A STATUS
FIGURE.
ALEXANDER BUILDING HAS TWO
YOUNG CHILDREN OF HER OWN NOW.
20 YEARS AGO, SHE WAS A CHILD
HERSELF. THIS IS A PHOTO OF HER
IN HIGH SCHOOL AROUND THE TIME
SHE WAS APPLYING FOR COLLEGES.
HER PARENTS HIRED RICK SINGER
TO HELP.
SHE GOT AN EMAIL FROM HER DAD
THIS WEEK.
HE SAID CHECK OUT TODAY'S
WALL STREET JOURNAL.
IS THAT THE RICK SINGER THAT
USED TO COME AND HELP YOU WITH
YOUR COLLEGE APPLICATIONS?
Reporter: TWO DECADES LATER,
THAT SAME RICK SINGER IS NOW AT
THE CENTER OF SCANDAL, PLEADING
GUILTY TO THE LARGEST COLLEGE
BRIBERY SCHEME EVER
INVESTIGATED BY FEDERAL
PROSECUTORS.
A FIVE FROM THE GRAY HAIR,
HE LOOKED REMARKABLY SIMILAR TO
HOW WE LOOKED IN 1998.
Reporter: SHE SAYS SINGER
NEVER GUARANTEED HER GETTING
INTO ELITE SCHOOL.
BACK THEN HE FOCUSED HIS
EFFORTS ON HELPING HER FIND A
SCHOOL THAT WAS A GOOD FIT.
SHE ENDED UP ATTENDING THE
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
SHE SAYS SHE REMEMBERS HIM AS
INTENSE.
THERE WAS NOTHING ABOUT HIM
THAT WAS FLASHING.
Reporter: ALWAYS WEARING
ATHLETIC GEAR.
I DO REMEMBER MY PARENTS
SAYING HE SEEMED LIKE HE WAS
INTERESTED IN STATUS.
NOT SOMETHING I WOULD HAVE
NOTICED. WHAT DID IN HINDSIGHT.
Reporter: SHE SAID SINGER
WAS THE GO TO COLLEGE COUNSELOR
IN THE 19 DAYS.
THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF
CLIENTS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO
REGION.
Reporter: THIS ONE TIME
CLIENT FROM HIS EARLY YEARS.
TO BE SUDDENLY A CHEATER TO
THE STARS IS QUITE A FLIP.
Reporter: NOW, YEARS LATER,
SHE IS LIVING A FULL LIFE
FOLLOWING A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE
CAREER.
PERHAPS RICK SINGER HELP ME
FOCUS ON THAT.
I GUESS THAT'S SOMETHING TO BE
THANKFUL FOR.
I KINDA WISH YOU GET STUCK WITH
IT.
I THINK HE DOES TOO, RIGHT NOW.
THE CHEATING AND BRIBERY
CHARGES DATE BACK TO 2011.
THAT IS THE SAME YOUR RECORDS
SHOW WE ACTUALLY MOVED FROM
SACRAMENTO TO NEWPORT BEACH.
HE IS SET TO BE SENTENCED FOR
THOSE CRIMES HE PLED GUILTY TO
