A wealthy New York couple charged as part of the college admissions scandal will be hoping their lawyer offers up a better defense than their son after he appeared outside their apartment to rubbish the charges while smoking a large blunt.
Malcolm Abbott, a self-styled rapper, accused the FBI of 'blowing this whole thing out of proportion' as he defended parents Gregory and Marcia over claims they effectively paid to get their daughter into college.
Malcolm, who raps under the name Billa, also took the opportunity to plug his latest CD to journalists in between puffs on his suspicious-looking cigarette.
Malcolm Abbott, a self-styled rapper who makes music under the name Billa, defended his parents against charges they paid to get their daughter into college
Malcolm said charges against father Gregory (pictured) had been 'blown out of proportion' as he smoked a blunt in front of journalists outside the family's Park Avenue apartment
The CD is called 'Cheese and Crackers', Malcolm said, and features a song called If I Lost My Money.
'I believe everyone has a right to go to college, man,' he told a reporter for the New York Post, though admitted he didn't go himself.
Malcolm then disappeared into the Park Avenue apartment, which overlooks the Met Museum, before reemerging with a man who had earlier claimed to be his brother.
On Tuesday, that man told the post that his parents 'got roped into [this by] some guy who f***ing cheated them.'
Gregory Abbott, 68, founder and chairman of a food and beverage packaging company, and his wife Marcia Abbott, 59, were named in Tuesday's affidavit along with 50 high-profile names accused of buying their way into prestigious colleges.
Gregory (pictured) and wife Marcia allegedly paid $175,000 to alter their daughter's SAT scores so she could go to Duke
The couple, who have homes in New York City and Aspen, Colorado, allegedly paid a total of $125,000 to have someone alter their daughter's ACT and SAT test scores so she could gain entrance to Duke University.
According to the affidavit, the Abbott Family Foundation made a 'charitable donation' of $50,000 to KWF in April 2018, four days before the Abbotts' daughter took the ACT in Los Angeles.
The exam was proctored by a fixer identified in court documents as Cooperating Witness 2, who corrected her answers after she finished, prosecutors say.
She received a score of 35 out of 36 on that exam.
A couple months later, Marcia Abbott called Singer about paying to arrange someone to take SAT subject tests for her daughter. That conversation was intercepted by investigators under a court-ordered wire tap, the affidavit states.
Singer told her: '[Gregory Abbott] would have to be willing to pay for it,' to which she replied: 'Yeah, well he can donate, I mean, whatever the donations are.'
They agreed on a price of $75,000 during that call as the SAT subject tests are significantly more challenging than the ACT.
Marcia Abbott contacted Singer again in September 2018 to arrange for someone to take the math and literature subject tests for her daughter because she thought she hadn't done well enough taking the tests on her own.
In a wiretapped phone call, Marcia Abbott said: 'She’s convinced that she bombed the lit because she was too tired, so … And [Duke University] told us they didn’t want anything below a 750.'
Malcolm (left) also told reporters that 'everyone has the right to go to college, man' before plugging his new CD
Singer then tells Marcia Abbott that she was smart to have someone fix her daughter's ACT because she would have received a score of 23 without the fixer's help.
Offended, Marcia Abbott says that her daughter had struggled because she was sick with mono at the time.
The Abbott Family Foundation made a purported donation of $75,000 to the KWF charity days later, the affidavit states.
A fixer amended the daughter's answers on her subject tests after she took them, and she ended up with an 800 out of 800 on math and 710 out of 800 on literature.
On a later phone call, the fixer indicated that she would have scored in the mid-600s without their help.
Gregory Abbott was seen leaving federal court in New York City after presentment on Tuesday.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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