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CEO’s daughter 'gloated' about cheating on SATs in college scam: prosecutors

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California school system, once the envy of the entire free 
world, after 40 years of Democrat control and parasitic 
socialist union infestation.

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They’re not so smug now.

The daughter of a CEO whose parents allegedly paid big bribes to 
get her into Georgetown University “gloated” about being fed the 
answers to her SATs, according to prosecutors.

Isabelle Henriquez’s parents — Manuel, the founder and CEO of 
Hercules Capital, and Elizabeth — were among dozens of well-
heeled moms and dads charged with bribing their kids’ way into 
top colleges in the massive admissions scam that on Tuesday 
rocked the nation.

The California couple allegedly paid the scheme’s mastermind, 
William “Rick” Singer, more than $400,000 to get Isabelle into 
the prestigious school where she is now a junior — as well as 
helping her younger sister cheat on her own college-entrance 
exam.

Singer allegedly talked Isabelle’s private college-prepar­atory 
school into allowing one of his crooked proctors to fly in to 
oversee the test.

Then “unbeknownst to the school, he sat side-by-side with the 
daughter during the exam and provided her with answers to the 
exam questions,” court documents allege.

Afterward, “he ‘gloated’ with Elizabeth Henriquez and her 
daughter about the fact that they had cheated and gotten away 
with it,” the criminal complaint reads.

Isabelle received a score of 1900 out of a possible 2400 on the 
exam — “an improvement of 320 points” over her own best score.

But to grease the wheels of her admission even further, the 
Henriquezes then allegedly worked with Singer to bribe 
Georgetown’s then-head tennis coach, Gordon Ernst, to have her 
designated as a recruited athlete.

Singer fabricated an essay and application for Isabelle that 
falsely claimed she played “club tennis” through high school, 
held a “top 50 ranking” in junior girls tennis for the United 
States Tennis Association and was on the USTA all-academic team 
for her junior and senior years, prosecutors allege.

“At her best, she appears to have ranked 207th in Northern 
California in the under-12 girls division, with an overall 
win/loss record of 2-8,” they write in the complaint.

Less than two weeks later, she received a letter from the 
university saying it had reviewed her application at the request 
of tennis coach and that her admission was “likely” — and she 
was ultimately accepted.

Many of the students caught up in the bribery scandal were 
purportedly in the dark about what their parents were up to — 
but the criminal complaint ­alleges Isabelle was a willing 
participant.

Since arriving at Georgetown, she has declared her major in 
Spanish, scored a gig as the promotions officer for the school’s 
student-spirit organization and is president of a group that 
tutors kids at a local middle school, according to her LinkedIn 
page.

She says she interned for her father’s firm in 2018, is 
currently an investment-banking intern at Compass Point Research 
& Trading — and is slated to be a summer wealth-management 
analyst at Big Apple financial-services company Jefferies.

In a now-deleted post on a blog for a sociology class, she wrote 
that she is “very self-motivated” and has a “a good moral 
compass” when choosing friends.

Isabelle’s Georgetown acceptance was apparently such a success 
that her parents also allegedly paid to have Singer’s proctor 
repeat the cheating stunt for their younger daughter on both the 
ACT and SAT exams.

The dad on Wednesday “voluntarily stepped aside” as chairman and 
CEO of Hercules Capital after the company’s shares plummeted by 
as much as 10 percent when the scandal broke.

He and his wife turned themselves in Tuesday and were each 
released on $500,000 bond.

Both looked stunned as they appeared in court, with Manuel 
shaking his head and looking at the ground as the judge 
explained the charges against them, according to Bloomberg.

Georgetown said it wouldn’t comment on individual students, but 
said in a statement it is “reviewing the details of the 
indictment and will be taking appropriate action.”

Isabelle did not return a ­request for comment.

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