The man Trump is accused of paying to take his SAT exam died in 1999, but his widow denied that he would have helped cheat the system

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• In her new book, President Donald Trump's niece claims her uncle cheated his way into the Wharton School by paying a friend, Joe Shapiro, take his SAT exam for him. 
• Shapiro's widow, who happens to be former tennis star Pam Shriver, threw that claim into question in a recorded statement released Wednesday. 
• While she did not directly refute the claim, Shriver said she was always told that her husband met Trump after Trump started at Wharton.
• Shriver also said Shapiro was "a man of great integrity" and "honesty."
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President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, has in her new book accused him of cheating his way into the prestigious Wharton School by paying a "close friend" named Joe Shapiro to take his SAT exam for him.

But now the widow of a man with the same name, who was friends with Trump, is throwing that claim into question. 

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