An educational consultant accused of defrauding a family in China of more than $2 million has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $839,000 in restitution to the family, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
A jury in April found Mark Zimny guilty of scamming a Hong Kong couple who paid him to help get their sons into elite New England prep schools and colleges.
The case calls attention to the dark side of a growing international admissions consulting industry, as more foreign families seek to send their students to elite US schools at any cost.
Read more at The Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/17/admission-consultant-gets-years-for-scamming-chinese-family/Izc4zHdnaxwlkcodhIwj4M/story.html
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