A former University of Southern California athletics department official who accepted bribes from the ringleader of the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal to help get often unqualified students into the school as sports recruits has been sentenced to six months in prison.
FILE - Donna Heinel, former University of Southern California athletics administrator, arrives at federal court in Boston on March 25, 2019, to face charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Heinel, who accepted bribes from the ringleader to help get often unqualified students into the school as sports recruits, was sentenced Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, to six months in prison. Heinel was also sentenced in U.S.
by far the longest sentence in the so-called Operation Varsity Blues scandal that has led to convictions or guilty pleas from more than 50 people, including Hollywood actors and wealthy businesspeople. “Heinel abused her position as the liaison between USC’s athletic coaches and the subcommittee on athletic admissions by misleading the committee into approving the admission of approximately two dozen Singer applicants as purported athletic recruits when, in reality, the coaches had not recruited them and some did not even play the sport they were purportedly being recruited to play," the prosecution wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
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