The defendants have not yet entered pleas. But legal proceedings are accelerating.
By Karen Weintraub and Nick Anderson Nick Anderson Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market Email Bio Follow March 29 at 6:46 PM BOSTON — Fifteen parents accused of conspiracy to commit fraud appeared in federal court Friday as legal proceedings accelerated in the college admissions cheating and bribery scandal.
Prosecutors have accused the parents of paying consultant William “Rick” Singer millions of dollars to bankroll a two-part scheme to compromise the admissions process. Much of the money allegedly flowed through a sham charity Singer controlled. On Thursday, former Yale women’s soccer coach Rudolph Meredith pleaded guilty to two fraud-related counts after prosecutors accused him of taking and soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Yale this week said it has rescinded admission of one student in connection with the case.[Twelve plead not guilty in college admissions bribery scandal]
Abdelaziz is accused of donating $300,000 in 2018 to Singer’s charity — with the understanding, prosecutors allege, that the real purpose was to enable his daughter to be designated as a recruit for the USC basketball team. The daughter, according to court documents, was admitted to USC but did not join the team.
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