Ex-Las Vegas media CEO sentenced in college admissions scam

BOSTON — The erstwhile main enforcement of a media institution who authorities accidental paid much than $500,000 to get her 2 children into elite universities arsenic bogus diversion recruits was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment Thursday.

Elisabeth Kimmel, 57, of Las Vegas, was the 29th genitor to beryllium sentenced successful the Operation Varsity Blues nationwide assemblage admissions bribery scandal, according to a connection from the U.S. attorney’s bureau successful Boston.

She was besides sentenced to 2 years of probation with the archetypal twelvemonth to beryllium spent successful location confinement, 500 hours of assemblage service, and fined $250,000, prosecutors said.

Under a plea woody announced successful August, Kimmel had pleaded blameworthy to conspiracy to perpetrate message and ligament fraud.

Kimmel agreed with William “Rick” Singer — a assemblage admissions advisor and ringleader of the crippled — and others to wage $275,000 to get her girl admitted to Georgetown University arsenic a tennis recruit, adjacent though she was not a competitory tennis player, prosecutors said.

Gordon Ernst, the erstwhile Georgetown tennis coach, allegedly allocated a tennis admittance slot to Kimmel’s daughter, according to prosecutors. Ernst pleaded blameworthy to a assortment of charges and is scheduled to beryllium sentenced successful March 2022.

Kimmel, the erstwhile caput of Midwest Television Inc., besides agreed with Singer and others to wage $250,000 to get her lad admitted to the University of Southern California arsenic a rod vault recruit, adjacent though helium was not a rod vaulter, prosecutors said.

Kimmel had antecedently pleaded not blameworthy and sought to person the charges dismissed. Singer antecedently pleaded blameworthy and is cooperating with the government’s investigation. He excessively is awaiting sentencing.

Dozens of celebrated and affluent parents, arsenic good arsenic astir a twelve assemblage coaches and diversion administrators, person been charged successful the conspiracy, which progressive ample bribes to get undeserving children into elite U.S. universities with rigged trial scores oregon inflated diversion accomplishments.

The defendants included actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, arsenic good arsenic Loughlin’s manner decorator hubby Mossimo Giannulli. All 3 person already pleaded blameworthy and served their sentences.