Canadian mom charged with paying $400,000 to have son admitted to UCLA as fake soccer player
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.”
Singer told Sui to place $400,000 in an escrow account, which would hold the money until her son was admitted to UCLA, according to the indictment. He told Sui her son wouldn’t “know anything is happening,” the indictment says. 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.”
Salcedo was indicted in March, charged with facilitating a similar deal in 2016. Prosecutors allege Singer paid him $100,000 to misrepresent the daughter of a wealthy Bay Area couple, Bruce and Davina Isackson, as a soccer recruit. The couple pleaded guilty earlier this year and admitted their daughter didn’t play soccer.Salcedo has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering. His attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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