Former Willkie Farr Co-Chair Gets One Month in College Scam (2)

On a phone call with the mastermind of the biggest college-admissions scam in U.S. history, Gordon Caplan asked what would happen if his daughter got caught cheating on her entrance exam.

“I’m not worried about the moral issues here,” Caplan, then co-chairman of the prestigious New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, said with a laugh, according to an FBI transcript of the call. “I’m worried about the, if she’s caught doing that, you know, she’s finished.”

But it was Caplan, the American Lawyer’s Dealmaker of the Year in 2018, who got caught. In federal court in ...