More charges brought in college admissions bribery scandal Another wealthy parent has been charged with trying to bribe his child’s way into an elite university as a fake athletic recruitBOSTON -- Another wealthy parent was charged Wednesday with trying to bribe his child's way into an elite university as a fake athletic recruit, a day after two former college coaches caught up in the nationwide admissions bribery scandal were hit with additional charges. Amin Khoury, 54, of Palm Beach, Florida, and Mashpee, Massachusetts, in May 2014 paid $200,000 to get former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst to designate his daughter as a tennis recruit even though her “tennis skills were below that of a typical Georgetown tennis recruit," the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said in a statement. In addition, Jovan Vavic, the former water polo coach at the University of Southern California, was charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, the statement said. The new charges allege he conspired to commit federal programs bribery by soliciting and accepting bribes to get more applicants into USC. The alleged bribes came from William “Rick” Singer, the college admissions consultant at the center of the scheme.

Source: ABC News September 02, 2020 15:11 UTC