“Good enough to shag balls for the tennis team anyway,” Brennan replies, according to the exchange.
The government has charged 34 parents in the scandal, of whom 15 have pleaded guilty to fraud. William “Rick” Singer has admitted to leading the sprawling operation, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and is cooperating in the prosecution.
As the U.S. has laid out the scheme, Singer took thousands of dollars from wealthy clients to fix their children’s entrance exam scores and hundreds of thousands in bribes for college athletic coaches to put the kids on recruiting rosters, assuring them of places in elite schools across the country, including USC, Stanford, Yale and Georgetown. None of the colleges or students have been charged.
But USC, Zangrillo’s attorneys told the court in Tuesday’s filing, “is far from the crime ‘victim’ that it claims to be.”
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