'To be honest, it feels a little weird. But…What do I need to do?' Inside the investigation that exposed the college admissions scam.
Federal authorities were pursuing a securities fraud case last spring when a person involved, hoping for leniency, said there was another story of great interest, according to people familiar with the investigation.
From there, authorities found the head women’s soccer coach at Yale University, who had allegedly accepted a $400,000 bribe to get a student with false credentials admitted. The coach began cooperating in what federal investigators said was the biggest college-admissions fraud ever prosecuted.
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