An accountant who laundered bribes and a collegiate soccer coach who pocketed them pleaded guilty in Boston to racketeering conspiracy, acknowledging they played key roles in a scheme that defrauded some of the country’s most prestigious universities.
In deciding the first sentence of the case earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel, despite prosecutors recommending the former Stanford sailing coach be incarcerated for 13 months. That proposal was less than the range given in Vandemoer’s plea deal, but Zobel disputed the government’s sentencing calculus and went far below that recommendation.
Khosroshahin was fired by USC in 2013 but continued to work with Singer, facilitating a bribe payment in 2016 to Jorge Salcedo, then the men’s soccer coach at UCLA, according to an indictment charging Salcedo with racketeering conspiracy. Salcedo has pleaded not guilty. As the Key Worldwide Foundation’s accountant and financial officer, Masera issued scores of euphemistic invoices to Singer’s clients, prosecutors say, such as the $10,000 bill for “testing support” to a Northern California couple who wanted to inflate their daughter’s SAT score by 320 points, or the $200,000 tab for “placement fees” to a Del Mar executive whose daughter was admitted to USC as an ersatz soccer player.
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