William Singer left federal court in Bostonlast month. 

威廉·辛格上月离开波士顿联邦法院。

One of the mysteries of the sweeping college admissions fraud case has been over the families that prosecutors say paid the biggest sums to a college consultant atthe center of the schemes but that have not been charged.

这起涉及范围广泛的大学入学欺诈案的谜团之一是有关那些家庭的。检方表示，这些家庭向参与该计划的一名大学申请顾问支付了最高金额，但尚未受到指控。

The 33 parents charged in the scandal are mostly accused of paying the consultant, William Singer, either tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate cheating on admissions tests or to bribe coaches or other officials so that their children could be admitted to schools as recruited athletes.

丑闻中被指控的33名家长中，大多被控向大学申请顾问威廉辛格(William Singer)支付数万或数十万美元，帮助他们的孩子在入学考试中作弊，或贿赂教练或其他官员，以便让他们的孩子被大学录取为特招运动员。

But the prosecutors leading the largest-ever college admissions prosecution have also alluded to other families,not named and not charged, who paid far more. One family paid Mr. Singer $6.5million to get their child into college through the recruitment scheme, theprosecutors have said. Another was described in court documents as having paidMr. Singer $1.2 million in connection with their daughter’s application toYale.

但是，负责有史以来规模最大的大学入学诉讼的检察官也提到了其他家庭，这些家庭支付的费用要高得多，没有透露这些家庭的姓名，也没有受到指控。检方说，有一个家庭向辛格支付了650万美元，让他们的孩子通过招生计划进入大学。法庭文件称，另一家庭因女儿申请耶鲁大学而向辛格支付了120万美元。

Prosecutors said that the daughter, whom they called Yale Applicant 1 in court documents, was admitted to Yale as a recruit for the women’s soccer team, despite not being acompetitive soccer player. According to documents charging Rudolph Meredith,the former women’s soccer coach at Yale, Mr. Singer had paid Mr. Meredith abribe to designate the young woman as a recruit for the team. Mr. Singer has pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges, and Mr.Meredith has pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges.

检察官说，他们在法庭文件中称这名女儿为耶鲁大学的申请人，她被耶鲁大学录取为女子足球队的一名新生，尽管她不是一名有竞争力的足球运动员。指控耶鲁大学(Yale)前女足教练鲁道夫梅雷迪思(Rudolph Meredith)的文件显示，辛格曾向梅雷迪思行贿，让这名学生成为球队的一名新成员。辛格对诈骗和其他指控认罪，梅雷迪思对欺诈和共谋指控认罪。

On Friday, Yale Applicant 1 was finally identified: She is Sherry Guo, a young woman from China who moved to Southern California for high school, and who was a freshman at Yale until last month, according to her lawyer, James Spertus.

上周五，耶鲁1号申请人终于被披露出来: 据她的律师詹姆斯斯佩图斯说，她叫Sherry Guo，是一名来自中国的年轻女子，她搬到南加州读高中，在上个月到耶鲁大学读书。

Ms. Guo’s identity was first reported on Friday by The Wall Street Journal.

《华尔街日报》上周五首次报道了Guo的身份。

A spokeswoman for the United States attorney’s office in Boston,Christina Sterling, declined to comment on Ms. Guo’s case. Asked why Ms. Guoand her parents — as well as the still unidentified family that was said to have paid Mr. Singer $6.5 million — have not been charged in the case, she said, “I cannot comment other than to say it is an ongoing investigation.”

波士顿联邦检察官办公室发言人克里斯蒂娜斯特林(Christina Sterling)拒绝评论Guo的案件。当被问及Guo和她的父母——以及那个据称向辛格支付了650万美元的身份不明的家庭——为何没有受到指控时，她表示，“我只能说本案尚在继续调查之中，除此之外无无可奉告。”

According to the charges against Mr. Meredith, Ms. Guo and her family were introduced to Mr.Singer in 2017 by a financial adviser based in Los Angeles. An employee of the financial adviser sent Mr. Singer an email “stating that Yale Applicant 1’sfather wished to make a ‘donation’ to ‘one of those top schools for his daughter’s ‘application,’” the charging documents said.

根据对梅雷迪思的指控，Guo和她的家人是在2017年由一名驻洛杉矶的财务顾问介绍给辛格的。指控文件称，财务顾问的一名员工给辛格发了一封电子邮件，“说耶鲁1号申请人的父亲希望向其中一所顶级学校捐款，为女儿的‘申请’做准备”。

Mr. Singer promptly sent Ms. Guo’s résumé and personal statement to Mr. Meredith, the soccer coach, according to the charging documents. Her personal statement contained links to her art portfolio; Mr. Singer told Mr. Meredith he would“revise” the materials to “soccer.” A few days later, he sent Mr. Meredith anathletic profile that falsely described Ms. Guo as the co-captain of aprominent club soccer team in Southern California. Mr. Meredith then designated her as a recruit for the soccer team.

起诉书显示，辛格迅速将Guo的简历和个人陈述发给了足球教练梅雷迪思。她的个人陈述包含了她的艺术作品集的链接;辛格告诉梅雷迪思，他会把这些材料“修改”成“足球”。几天后，他给梅雷迪思发了一份运动员简介，把Guo描述为南加州一支知名俱乐部足球队的队长。梅雷迪思随即将她列入耶鲁足球校队特招名单之列。

According to the charging documents, Mr. Singer mailed Mr. Meredith a check for $400,000 in 2018, and later that year, Ms. Guo’s relatives paid Mr. Singer $1.2 million inseveral installments, $900,000 of which was sent to a nonprofit foundation Mr.Singer had set up, and which prosecutors argue was used to hide much of Mr.Singer’s and his clients’ illicit activity.

指控文件显示，辛格在2018年向梅雷迪思邮寄了一张400,000美元的支票，同年，Guo的亲属分几期向辛格支付了120万美元，其中90万美元被捐给了辛格设立的一个非盈利基金会。检方称，该基金会被用来掩盖辛格及其客户的大部分非法活动。

Mr. Spertus said that Ms. Guo and her parents did not know that the payment was going toward abribe. Her parents did not speak English and were not in direct contact with Mr. Singer, he said, while Ms. Guo herself was naïve about how the college admissions process worked in the United States. (Mr. Spertus would not identify Ms. Guo’s parents.)

律师斯佩图斯指出Guo同学及其父母对于该笔款项被用于行贿毫不知情。他说，Guo的父母不会说英语，也没有与辛格直接接触，而Guo同学本人则对大学申请过程一无所知。(斯佩图斯不愿透露Guo父母的身份。)

Ms. Guo wanted to go to Columbia University or Oxford, Mr.Spertus said, but Mr. Singer told her to apply to Yale, and that she would beguaranteed to get in. While that might have seemed strange to a student who grew up in the United States, he said, Ms. Guo did not expect to have much choice about where to go to college.

斯珀图斯说，Guo的梦想大学是哥伦比亚大学(Columbia University)或牛津大学(Oxford)，但辛格让她申请耶鲁大学(Yale)，并保证她能考上。他说，对于一个在美国长大的学生来说，这可能听起来很奇怪，但Guo认为在上大学的问题上没有太多选择。

“She wasn’t working with Singer to find the best school forher,” he said. “She is now devastated because she is no longer in college,period.” Yale has said that it rescinded the admission of one student in connectionwith the case, but has not identified the student.

“辛格没有与Guo同学讨论究竟哪个大学对她最为适合。”他说。“由于被迫离开大学，她现在极为沮丧。”耶鲁大学前些时候宣布一位与涉及此案的学生除名，但并未透露该学生身份。

He said that Ms. Guo was not copied on either of the emails that Mr. Singer sent to Mr. Meredith suggesting that her college credentials be falsified to say she played soccer.

他表示辛格向梅雷迪思提议篡改申请材料时也没有将邮件抄送给Guo。这两封电子邮件都暗示，Guo的大学学历是伪造的，伪造成她踢过足球。

Mr. Spertus saidthe large size of the payment suggested that Mr. Singer was exploiting Ms.Guo’s family and their lack of knowledge about the college process.

斯佩尔图斯说，这笔巨额款项表明，辛格是在利用Guo的家人对大学申请程序缺乏了解。

“The amount alone shows that he was preying on the Chinese community,” he said. “The donation was made to help underprivileged youth. They were not aware that the money went to Meredith. They did not know that he wasgoing to use that money for a bribe. There is no evidence of that whatsoever.”

他说：”单从收费数额可以看出，辛格是在掠夺中国人。这笔捐款原本是为了帮助处于困境的年轻人。他们不知道辛格会拿这笔钱行贿，更不清楚会进到梅雷迪思的腰包。没有任何证据显示Guo家对此知情。”

新闻来源：纽约时报

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/college-admissions-scandal.html?_ga=2.117518409.1757331505.1556501318-999243371.1515516774

中文翻译：AQG Vivian