Twelve defendants are scheduled to enter pleas in U.S. District Court in Boston.
By Karen Weintraub and Nick Anderson Nick Anderson Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market Email Bio Follow March 25 at 12:05 PM BOSTON — Several former athletic coaches and others charged with crimes in the college admissions cheating and bribery scandal are scheduled to appear here in federal court this afternoon to enter pleas.
Prosecutors charge that wealthy parents bankrolled a bribery scam in an effort to get their children into schools including Yale, Stanford and Georgetown universities and the University of Southern California, among others. In all, 50 people have been charged. The mastermind, college consultant William “Rick” Singer, has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy counts of racketeering, money laundering and fraud.
●Gordon Ernst, former Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis coach, who recently resigned as women’s tennis coach at the University of Rhode Island.●Jovan Vavic, former USC water polo coach.● Laura Janke, former USC assistant women’s soccer coach.●Jorge Salcedo, former men’s soccer coach at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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