The 12 people appeared in Boston federal court to face charges that they took part in a $25 million racketeering conspiracy in which wealthy parents paid for help cheating on admissions exams and to bribe coaches who secured spots for their children in elite universities as fake athletic prospects. The defendants included Gordon Ernst, Georgetown’s former head tennis coach; Jorge Salcedo, the former head men’s soccer coach at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and Donna Heinel, formerly USC’s senior associate athletic director. They are among 50 people, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman and top corporate executives, charged with participating in a scheme that helped parents buy admission to universities such as Yale, USC and Georgetown. Others who entered not guilty pleas included former Wake Forest University women’s volleyball coach William Ferguson; former USC women’s soccer coaches Ali Khosroshahin and Laura Janke; and ex-USC water polo coach Jovan Vavic. The hearing came as Yale on Monday said it had rescinded the admission of a student linked to the scandal. A former Yale soccer coach, Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith, is set to plead guilty on Thursday to accepting bribes to designate applicants as soccer recruits. The investigation has… Read full this story
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