SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – As summer travel plans heat up for many, some Bay Area parents caught in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal have already been allowed to take time off of their sentences to go on trips, according to reporting by the East Bay Times.
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Some are even being allowed to schedule further escapades for later this summer.
One such parent, Marci Palatella of Hillsborough in San Mateo County, took off from her house arrest to go to Kentucky recently. She has another trip there again in July, according to the paper.
While there, her location will be monitored.
Palatella was sentenced to six weeks in jail and six months of "home confinement," for her role in the scandal, according to the paper.
She paid $500,000 to get her son into USC, posing him as a fake football recruit, and was charged with mail fraud, the paper reported.
Palatella is known for her marriage to former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Lou Palatella, and the couple owns a distillery in Kentucky.
Another convicted parent, William "Bill" McGlashan Jr., has even more exciting summer plans, the paper reported.
McGlashan Jr., based in Mill Valley, is traveling on an extended vacation to Ireland, Scotland, London, and Fiji, according to the paper.
A former international private equity investor and founder of TPG Capital, a global private equity investment firm, McGlashan Jr. was convicted of wire fraud and honest services wire fraud for paying $50,000 to get his son’s ACT exam answers changed, according to reporting by Reuters.
Other parents involved in the scandal have not been so lucky in getting time off from their sentence for travel, according to the East Bay Times.
One mother, Elisabeth Kimmel, of San Diego, tried to get time off to go to her daughter's law school graduation from the University of Illinios, who her mother falsely got into Georgetown University in 2013.
Kimmel is serving house confinement for paying more than $500,000 to get her children into Georgetown University as well as the University of Southern California as fake athletes, the paper reported.
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