Mother with Las Vegas ties to plead guilty in college bribery case

A San Diego media enforcement with with Las Vegas ties has agreed to plead blameworthy successful the national assemblage bribery scandal arsenic portion of a woody with national prosecutors, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Elisabeth Kimmel, 57, volition plead blameworthy to 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate message and ligament fraud. She is expected to beryllium sentenced to six weeks successful situation and 2 years of supervised release, with the archetypal twelvemonth spent successful location confinement.

Kimmel precocious had relocated to Las Vegas from Southern California erstwhile national authorities went nationalist with details of the ungraded successful aboriginal 2019. The U.S. attorney’s bureau successful Massachusetts connected Thursday described Kimmel arsenic a La Jolla, California, resident.

If the woody goes through, Kimmel besides volition beryllium required to wage a $250,000 good and execute 500 hours of assemblage service. A plea proceeding had not been scheduled arsenic of Thursday morning.

Prosecutors person said that Kimmel agreed with William “Rick” Singer and others to wage $275,000 to facilitate her daughter’s admittance to Georgetown University by having Georgetown tennis manager Gordon Ernst allocate a tennis admittance slot to her daughter, adjacent though she was not a competitory tennis player.

Kimmel besides agreed to wage $250,000 to facilitate her son’s admittance to the University of Southern California arsenic a rod vault recruit, adjacent though helium was not a rod vaulter, prosecutors person alleged.

She volition beryllium the 32nd genitor to plead blameworthy successful the high-profile case.

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