Chinese mom charged with paying $400,000 to have son admitted to UCLA as fake soccer player

A 35th parent, who is accused of aiming to ensure her son’s admission as a Bruin, has been charged in the college admissions scandal. To guarantee her son a spot at UCLA, prosecutors say Sui turned to William “Rick” Singer, the Newport Beach college admissions consultant who earlier this year admitted to overseeing a sprawling, decade-long scheme that defrauded some of the country’s most selective universities with rigged college entrance exams, fake recruiting profiles and six-figure bribes to college coaches and administrators. The indictment lays out Sui’s alleged deal with Singer, beginning in August 2018, when Singer discussed with a college tennis recruiter from Sarasota, Fla., how much it would cost Sui to guarantee her son’s admission to several universities “through bribery.” The recruiter, described as owning a business that matches high school tennis players with college coaches, isn’t named in the indictment, but several people familiar with the case identified him as Scott Treibly. Janke created one such profile for Sui’s son, the indictment says, complete with pictures of a different person playing soccer and fake achievements that described the boy as “a top player for two private soccer clubs in Canada.” Singer sent the recruiting profile and transcripts to Jorge Salcedo, UCLA’s head men’s soccer coach at the time, prosecutors allege. In another conference call with Treibly, Sui and a translator, Singer told Sui to wire him $100,000, which he explained in English would be paid to “the UCLA men’s soccer coach directly,” the indictment says.