Three (3) parents will plead guilty today:
Douglas Hodge - Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering
10/21/19 at 10:00 - set to plead guilty before Judge Gorton.
Between October 2012 and April 2013, Hodge, then the CEO at Pimco, paid at least $625,000, to a private soccer club controlled by USC coaches, a college prep company and a nonprofit as part of a scheme to gain admission to USC for his daughter on the basis of a bogus athletic résumé. The daughter, portrayed by USC coaches and a top athletic department administrator as the co-captain of the Japan national team, was admitted to the university. She did not play soccer for the Trojans. The federal indictment also indicated Hodge conspired with Singer to get another child into Loyola Marymount. The child is not an LMU student and was not admitted to LMU for the fall 2019 semester. Hodge and Singer also conspired to get an older Hodge daughter into Georgetown in 2008 with an application that claimed victories in several U.S. Tennis Association events. The daughter had never played in a USTA event. The daughter was admitted on the recommendation of Georgetown tennis coach Gordie Ernst. The daughter did not play tennis at Georgetown.
Ex-Pimco CEO Douglas Hodge to plead guilty in college admissions scandal – Orange County Register
Manuel Henriquez - Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering
10/21/19 at 2:00 pm - set to plead guilty before Judge Gorton. There's no word if his wife,
Elizabeth, will change her plea as well.
A test proctor sat side by side with their daughter during her college entrance exam and provided answers to the questions. After the exam, Henriquez, his wife and their daughter gloated about the fact that they had cheated and gotten away with it.
Bay Area resident Manuel Henriquez agrees to plead guilty in college admissions scandal, US attorney says
Michelle Janavs - Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering
10/21/19 at 2:30 pm - set to plead guilty before Judge Gorton.
A former executive in a family business that developed Hot Pockets, Janavs allegedly paid $100,000 to fix her daughter’s ACT exam score and to get her admitted to the University of Southern California’s volleyball team even though she didn’t play competitively. Janavs also allegedly paid thousands to get her younger daughter’s ACT exam score doctored. It is unclear whether the daughter was similarly recruited by a university or where she plans to attend school. According to the affidavit, Janavs’ older daughter was aware of the scheme, but the younger daughter was not.
Hot Pockets developer Michelle Janavs, former Wynn executive Gamal Aziz due in Boston court in college admission scandal