Gordon Caplan, the former co-chairman of Willkie Farr & Gallagher who pleaded guilty to working with a crooked college admissions consultant to rig his daughter’s ACT score, asked a Boston federal judge Thursday for a sentence of no prison time.

Prosecutors have called for an eight-month sentence for Caplan, saying not only did he pay a $75,000 bribe so that his daughter’s test answers would be corrected by associates of corrupt consultant William “Rick” Singer, but he hired a lawyer to challenge the ACT’s decision to cancel her score. Eight months is the bottom of the guidelines range agreed to in Caplan’s guilty plea.

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