BOSTON (AP) — A old skills govt pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying $300,000 to bribe his son’s formula into Georgetown College as a tennis recruit — even supposing the son didn’t play tennis.
The U.S. Attorney’s space of business in Boston said Peter Dameris, 60, of Pacific Palisades, California, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and horny products and services mail fraud.
Below the terms of Dameris’ plea agreement, federal prosecutors will indicate a sentence of time served plus 21 months of home confinement, a sexy of $95,000 and restitution, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in an announcement.
U.S. District Court Compile shut Richard Stearns enviornment sentencing for Oct. 5.
Dameris, a old govt at skills products and services firm ASGN Inc., is the 54th individual to plead guilty within the sweeping nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.
Prosecutors impart Dameris agreed to funnel the cash to a sham charity enviornment up by William “Rick” Singer, the alleged ringleader of the plan. They impart he did so as to make sure his son was once admitted to Georgetown as a tennis recruit, “even supposing he didn’t play tennis competitively.”
Singer pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the govt.’s investigation into what authorities comprise dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues” — a series of indictments that comprise rocked the worlds of upper education, sports actions and leisure.
Dozens of properly off of us, athletic coaches and others had been charged closing year within the plan. The of us paid hefty bribes to procure their formative years into high universities with bogus test ratings or flawed athletic credentials, authorities impart.
Others who comprise pleaded guilty embody “Beefy Home” actress Lori Loughlin and her vogue vogue designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, who agreed to plead guilty closing month. A resolve has but to resolve whether he’ll accept provides they made with prosecutors.
“Decided Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman, also pleaded guilty for paying $15,000 to comprise somebody rig her daughter’s entrance exam. Huffman was once sentenced to two weeks in penal complex.
