Former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst reached a plea deal to admit to bribery conspiracy, bribery and filing a false tax return in the higher-education investigation known as Operation Varsity Blues
. Fifty-seven people have been charged, with ex-coaches from Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Los Angeles already admitting guilt.entered its third day in Boston federal court, with prosecutors on Wednesday focused on an alleged false basketball-player profile used by one defendant to get his daughter into the University of Southern California as a sports recruit.
Mr. Ernst was criminally charged in 2019, alongside dozens of other Varsity Blues defendants. He maintained his innocence for more than two years and was set to go to trial in the U.S. District Court in Boston in mid-November along with two other former coaches, from the University of Southern California and Wake Forest University, and an ex-USC athletics administrator. Separately, three more parents who pleaded not guilty are scheduled for trial in January.
Mr. Singer, who awaits sentencing on four felonies, confessed to infiltrating soccer, crew, water polo, volleyball, tennis and sailing programs on at least seven campuses by offering payments to coaches or the teams, according to prosecutors.College Admissions Scandal
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