BOSTON — A former assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern California who created fake athletic profiles for the children of wealthy parents in the sprawling college admissions bribery scheme avoided prison time Tuesday after helping convict others in the case. Stephen Huggard, an attorney for Janke, said his client is a “very good person who is very sorry …
A Northern California couple who secured their daughters’ spots at UCLA and USC with bribes and rigged tests pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud and money laundering offenses, the first parents to admit their guilt before a judge in an investigation that has sent shivers through circles of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood and some of the country’s most elite universities. …
Andrew Lelling, left, announces indictments in the sweeping college admissions bribery scandal at a news conference March 12 in Boston. In a request for a protective order on evidence that will soon be turned over to defense attorneys, they said the wiretaps, financial documents, emails and surveillance photographs they have amassed contain information about “targets of the investigation who have …
Actress Lori Loughlin, center, with her daughters Bella, left, and Olivia Jade at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles. The couple’s older daughter didn’t row competitively, prosecutors allege in court documents, but Donna Heinel — a senior athletics official at USC whom Singer allegedly paid to shepherd his clients through the admissions process — presented her to the university …