The men and women who accepted millions of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for their roles in the college admission scandal Operation Varsity Blues are set to appear in federal court on Monday.
The 12 individuals include: seven former college coaches who allegedly accepted bribe money from parents after sneaking their children through the admission process; two of the proctors who allegedly turned a profit by taking exams for high school students; two former employees at the charitable foundation run by William Rick Singer; and a professional tennis coach from Texas.
All of the defendants are facing 20 years behind bars on racketeering charges.
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Pay for no play: The first 12 defendants in the Operation Varsity Blues scandal will appear in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday (USC above, where a number of the defendants were employed)
The scam first came to light back in 2018 because of a corrupt coach.
Yale soccer coach Rudy Meredith allegedly offered to secure a spot at the Ivy League institution to one deep-pocketed father for a heft sum - $450,000.
Unfortunately for Meredith and the 49 other individuals now awaiting trial, that deal happened to be offered to a financial executive who was being investigated by the FBI for securities fraud.
And so, in hopes that he would be granted some leniency in his own case, the man told the FBI about the scheme Meredith was running at Yale.
Meredith soon flipped and became a cooperating witness in the case alongside mastermind William Rick Singer.
It was Singer who was first to appear in court last week, and on Monday these 12 defendants are having their day.
Donna Heinel, 57
University of Southern California
Heinel is the former senior associate athletic director at USC, having been fired in the wake of this scandal. She is also the lone administrator to have been indicted at this time amid allegations she let over two dozen students in to the college who were never meant to compete for the school. The indictment filed two weeks ago states that Singer's clients paid over $1.3 million into accounts overseen by Heinel. In an odd twist, Heinel also runs a service advising parents how to abide by NCAA rules and regulations.
Gordon Ernst, 52
Georgetown University
Ernst accepted $2.7 million in bribes between 2012 and 2018 to help students gain admission by designating at least 12 applicants as tennis recruits, according to his indictment. He was then place on leave in December 2017 after the admissions office 'identified irregularities in his recruitment practices,' said the school. He was fired in 2018 but quickly picked up a job at the University of Rhode Island.
William Ferguson, 48
Wake Forest
Ferguson is accused of accepting $100,000 for helping a student gain acceptance to the North Carolina university when she was placed on a wait list
Ali Khoroshahin, 49
University of Southern California
Laura Janke, 36
University of Southern California
Jorge Salcedo, 46
University of California Los Angeles
Jovan Vavic, 57
University of Southern California
Singer and parents paid out over $250,000 to a bank account controlled by the water polo coach according to the indictment. In addition, Singer is said to have funded the cost of school for Vavic's children.
Igor Dvorskiy, 52,
College Board and ACT
It was Dvorsky, a test administrator, who would allow another individual to edit tests for the teens while overseeing the SAT and ACT at a test center in West Hollywood according to legal filings. In exchange he would receive approximately $10,000 per exam claim prosecutors, with Felicity Huffman’s daughter among those who benefited from this alleged cheating.
Lisa “Niki” Williams, 44,
College Board and ACT
Williams did the same thing as Dvorskiy, but in the Houston area. She would administer the exams at the high school where she worked, though she has since lost that job and her position with the College Board and ACT
Martin Fox, 62,
president of a private tennis academy in Houston.
Steven Masera, 69,
Key Worldwide Foundation
It was Masera who would allegedly take the funds donated by parents into the Key charitable fund and ten funnel that money off to coaches or those aiding the in the testing scam according to prosecutors. Many of these payments are out in the open as well on the tax returns filed by Key over the past six years.
Mikaela Sanford, 32,
Key Worldwide Foundation
In some extreme cases, parents allegedly paid Singer to find a person to take online classes for their children. Sanford is accused of taking those classes by prosecutors, while also allegedly fabricating athletic profiles for the parents of students.
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