Yale University has revoked the admission of a student whose family is accused of spending $1.2m (\u00a3907,000) in a bribery scheme to ensure admittance.<\/p>\n
An ex-football coach allegedly accepted a $400,000 bribe to fraudulently mark the non-athletic student as a recruit.<\/p>\n
The case is linked to the same cheating scandal that snared celebrity parents Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The elite college in Connecticut said it was investigating the matter.<\/p>\n
Women’s football coach Rudy Meredith, who resigned last November, was one of 50 individuals charged in the alleged college admissions scam.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0university’s website states<\/a>\u00a0that Mr Meredith is believed to have “provided fraudulent athletic endorsements to two applicants only; one was denied admission despite the endorsement, and the other was admitted”.<\/p>\n Yale will not name the student whose admission has been rescinded, but the university confirmed the case on Monday.<\/p>\n The Ivy League university, along with other top schools like the University of Southern California, Stanford and Georgetown, were targeted in the scam allegedly organised by mastermind Rick Singer.<\/p>\n The alleged scheme involved helping students cheat on entrance exams, as well as getting non-athletic students admitted on fake athletic scholarships.<\/p>\n Mr Singer was reportedly paid $1.2m by the Yale student’s family to facilitate the bribe to Mr Meredith in 2017. The two had been working together on bribery scams since around 2015,\u00a0according to court documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mr Singer sent Mr Meredith a copy of the student’s CV around November 2017, noting he would “revise” the applicant’s art portfolio to “soccer”.<\/p>\n Mr Meredith would later mark the applicant as a recruit for his team, “despite the fact that, as he knew at the time, [the student] did not play competitive soccer”.<\/p>\n Once the student was admitted in 2018, Mr Meredith received the $400,000 cheque from Mr Singer, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n Last year, Mr Meredith was caught by the FBI reportedly demanding another bribe, of $450,000, to designate an applicant as an athletic recruit for Yale.<\/p>\n He is expected to appear in court later this week.<\/p>\n The celebrities involved in Mr Singer’s scheme, as well as the targeted schools,\u00a0are now facing lawsuits from parents and students<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"