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USC fires athletics administrator, water polo coach amid college admissions bribe scandal

Newsgroups alt.politics.rush-limbaugh, alt.college.democrats, alt.education.alternative, misc.survivalism, sac.csus
Subject USC fires athletics administrator, water polo coach amid college admissions bribe scandal
Date 2019-03-17 14:00 +0100
Message-ID <17707706fdcda545b7965df3d81e631e@dizum.com> (permalink)
From "Elizabeth Paige Laurie" <cblasey@paloaltou.edu>

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California school system, once the envy of the entire free 
world, after 40 years of Democrat control and parasitic 
socialist union infestation.

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The University of Southern California (USC) has fired two 
employees who allegedly accepted enormous bribes in exchange for 
facilitating the acceptance of dozens of students, the school 
has said in an official statement.

Donna Heinel, a senior athletics administrator, and Jovan Vavic, 
men’s and women’s water polo head coach, were axed following an 
investigation into college admissions that saw such celebrities 
as Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman arrested on federal 
charges on Tuesday.

“We understand that the government believes that illegal 
activity was carried out by individuals who went to great 
lengths to conceal their actions from the university,” USC said, 
according to its paper the Daily Trojan. “USC is conducting an 
internal investigation. Donna Heinel and Jovan Vavic have been 
terminated and the university will take additional employment 
actions as appropriate.”

Two more USC athletics employees, women's soccer coaches Laura 
Janke and Ali Khosroshahin, were indicted, though it is not 
known yet if they have been fired as a consequence.

Heinel, 57, is accused of accepting a $500,000 bribe from 
Loughlin, who rose to fame on the popular family sitcom "Full 
House." Loughlin and her husband were both charged with bribing 
officials to get their daughter, YouTube "influencer" Olivia 
Jade Giannulli, into the school.

Vavic, also 57, is accused of accepting a $250,000 bribe in 
exchange for declaring two students as recruits for his water 
polo team in order to get them into USC.

The school's statement added detail on the fired employees' 
alleged crimes, which spanned at least four years. They are 
accused of connections to a sprawling admissions bribery scheme 
led by William Rick Singer.

“On multiple occasions between 2014 and 2018, Singer’s clients 
made payments of more than $1.3 million to USC accounts 
controlled by Heinel, typically an account for the USC Women’s 
Athletic Board,” the documents read. “Singer also entered into a 
sham consulting agreement with Heinel. … In exchange for the 
bribe payments, Heinel helped facilitate the admission of more 
than two dozen students as recruited athletes.”

Singer, through his charitable organization, is accused of 
receiving $25 million in bribes since 2011 to help the children 
of wealthy and influential parents gain entry to elite 
universities including Stanford, Yale and USC. On Tuesday, he 
pleaded guilty to four charges against him and admitted to his 
crimes. "All of these things, and many more things, I did," he 
said, according to CNN.

"I created a side door that would guarantee families would get 
in."

According to records, Singer allegedly made payments to Vavic 
for students to be listed as members of the water polo team and 
gain entry to the university, but never participated in any 
sports. Vavic was reportedly taken into custody in Honolulu on 
Tuesday.

A similar situation may have been in play with Loughlin's 
daughter Olivia, who is among students for whom fake profiles 
were allegedly created to allow her to appear as an athletic 
recruit. Fake profiles were said to have been created to label 
both of Loughlin's daughters as women's crew recruits, though 
they had no history of rowing athletically and weren't listed as 
current members of the USC women's crew team.

According to court documents, things began to fall apart for 
Singer's organization when a counselor became suspicious about 
her admission based on her crew involvement, because she did not 
play the sport. This apparently led to a public confrontation 
between the counselor and Loughlin's husband, designer Mossimo 
Giannulli, leading Heinel to leave him a voicemail asking that 
such an occurrence not happen again.

Loughlin's daughter Olivia currently attends USC and documents 
her time there on her YouTube page, which has nearly two million 
subscribers. In one video, she said she "really doesn't care 
about school," and wanted to go to attend parties and game days.

At least 50 high -profile business owners, celebrities and 
prominent coaches were charged on Tuesday in connection to the 
bribery sting, which U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling has labeled 
the “largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the 
Department of Justice.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/usc-fires-athletics-administrator-
water-polo-coach-amid-college-admissions-bribe-scandal
   

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