A former University of Southern California water polo coach was convicted on Friday on charges he accepted more than $200,000 in bribes to help children get into the school as fake athletic recruits in the latest trial to result from the U.S. college admissions scandal.
Highlights
- Jovan Vavic, 60, guilty on all three charges he faced following an investigation into a nationwide fraud and bribery scheme.
- The trial was the second to result from the “Operation Varsity Blues” investigation into the scheme.
- A judge set sentencing for July 20, setting sentencing date for Vavics’ sentencing.
- A key figure, former Florida private school counselor Mark Riddell, was sentenced to four months in prison for heling inflate SAT and ACT scores for 24 children by secretly taking their tests or correcting their answers while posing as an exam proctor.
- The money included $100,000 to designate the son of private equity financier John Wilson as a recruit.