Actors, Coaches, CEOs Among 50 People Charged In College Admissions, Recruiting Bribery Scheme

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston have charged 50 people, including several university athletic coaches and administrators of college entrance exams, in a nationwide college admissions cheating and recruitment scheme, according to court documents first released on Tuesday. 13 people have been indicted.

According to the indictment, the scheme worked to help potential students cheat on college entrance exams or pose as recruited athletes to get admitted to high-profile universities with bribes of up to $6 million. The scheme allegedly facilitated admittance for some students as athletes regardless of their athletic abilities.

Parents allegedly paid a California man a predetermined amount which he would then steer to either an SAT or ACT administrator, or a college athletic coach. Coaches would help non-recruits get into school by saying they were recruits. Most of the students allegedly admitted under these false pretenses that they did not know their admission was contingent on a bribe.

Among coaches indicted are current Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer, former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith, former Georgetown tennis coach Gordie Ernst, several USC Olympic sports coaches, current UCLA men's soccer coach Jorge Salcedo and current Texas men's tennis coach Michael Center. Ernst, who is accused of taking multiple six-figure cash bribes to admit fake recruits, resigned without explanation from Georgetown last summer. He is now coaching at Rhode Island.

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[obamanut2012]

1. Stanford just fired Vandemoer

[Sherman A1]

2. Hope they all get prosecuted to the full extent of the law

and if they need to serve time, even better.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Any statement yet from Huffman's hubby Bill Macy?

Thought it was interesting the actress was named but not him.

[exboyfil]

4. I got to think a lot of Athletic Directors

Are going.to lose.their jobs as well. Talk about failure of institutional control. Also wasn't the teams noticing the lack of scholarship players. For once it is not basketball or football.

[gibraltar72]

5. They have lead an otherwise blameless life.

[MrScorpio]

6. Yeah, what's the point of being bloody loaded...

If you can’t bribe your dumb ass kids’ way into a good college?

What are ya gonna do, expect them to get good grades and a high enough SAT score?

I thought that this was America, gawd dammit.