- In March 2019, a Massachusetts law firm released the names of 50 people suspected of paying for fake test results or false certificates. The widespread cheating began in 2011, including Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California and Georgetown University. There is no indication that the universities were involved in the cheating.
- A total of 53 people have been brought to trial. One of the more famous ones is actor Felicity Huffman. Together with 12 other wealthy families, the "Desperate houswives" star must have paid around SEK 150,000 to give their children high results on the American college exams, a ticket into the more reputable colleges.
- Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison in the fall of 2019, but was released after being sacked by 11. Her husband, actor Willam H. Macy, was also suspected of interference but has not been prosecuted so far.
- Actor Lori Loghlin, who after initially denying bribery, was sentenced in the spring of 2020 to two months in prison. This after she paid the equivalent of SEK 5 million for their two daughters to get a place at elite university UCLA, in Los Angeles. Her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Gianulli was sentenced to five months in prison.
- Organizer for the bribery scandal is said to be a 58-year-old man who owns two companies, one of which is a college advisory firm. He has received a total of $ 25 million in bribes from parents in the years 2011–2018 and has pleaded guilty to several offenses.