Amy Colburn, Gregory Colburn, pictured in 2019 after charges came down.
Although it’s been more than three years since the Department of Justice first came down with charges against the wealthy and well-connected in the college admissions scandal known as “Operation Varsity Blues,” the hits keep on coming.
Dr. Gregory Colburn, 63, and Amy Colburn, 52, are no Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli, or Felicity Huffman in terms of their recognizability around the globe, but the Silicon Valley couple stood out in their community. Dr. Colburn, a radiation oncologist, and Amy Colburn, who owned an interior design business, admittedly sullied that good standing by abusing their substantial means to commit a federal crime.
Prosecutors said—and the defendants admitted—that the Colburns conspired with college admissions scam mastermind William “Rick” Singer and others to defraud the College Board. The Colburns agreed to plead guilty in December 2021 to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud.
The wealthy couple’s crime was paying $25,000 to Singer’s sham charity under the guise of helping “underserved kids.” That money, in reality, was used to help their well-off son get a top SAT score. The money was used to pay off Igor Dvorskiy, described by DOJ as a “corrupt test administrator.” Dvorskiy in turn allowed Mark Riddell, “a corrupt test ‘proctor,”” to correct the SAT answers of the Colburns’ son.
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