A former women's volleyball coach at Wake Forest University accused of participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud and bribery scheme has struck a deal with federal prosecutors that could result in the charges against him being dropped.
unsealed on Tuesday agreed to dismiss the case against William Ferguson after two years if he pays a $50,000 fine and complies with other conditions.
Ferguson, 51, also accepted responsibility for his role in the college admissions scandal, acknowledging he agreed in 2017 to help the scheme's mastermind secure the admission of a student as a volleyball recruit in exchange for "purported donations." The mastermind, college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, paid $100,000 to three accounts, including $40,000 to the Winston-Salem, North Carolina school's volleyball program and $50,000 to a private volleyball camp Ferguson controlled.The agreement's unsealing came after a federal jury on Friday in the first trial in the scandal