Former University of Pennsylvania athlete and coach Jerome Allen sentenced to probation for accepting $300,000 in bribes to help the son of a Florida businessman get into the Ivy League school by passing him off as an elite athlete.
A former University of Pennsylvania basketball coach was sentenced to probation for accepting $300,000 in bribes to help the son of Florida businessman get into the Ivy League school by passing him off as an elite athlete.got four years' probation and was ordered to pay a $202,000 fine and forfeit another $18,000.
Allen, 47, got a lenient sentence on Monday from a federal judge in Miami because he testified for the government against health care executiveAllen, a popular star player at Penn before coaching at his alma mater, testified earlier this year that he helped the businessman's son, now a 2019 Penn grad, get into the school.Allen told jurors, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
That case netted dozens of defendants who are accused of cheating on the tests and bribing coaches at elite schools to falsely pass off applicants as star athletes, thus giving them special consideration for admission.
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