Remember the Admissions Scandal from Back in the Day?

Yes, it's hard to remember life before coronavirus. But back in the day, there was a scandal involving college admissions which included admissions to UCLA. The legal process has continued despite the crisis. From Reuters:

Xiaoning Sui, 48, appeared before a federal judge in Boston via a Zoom videoconference, in the second sentencing to take place remotely in the U.S. college admissions scandal because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sui pleaded guilty in February to federal programs bribery under a plea agreement that would spare her from further time in prison after she spent five months in jail in Spain, where she was arrested in September while traveling in Europe. Prosecutors said the five months was comparable to the sentences imposed on other parents charged in the scandal. Sui’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg, argued his client was “deeply regretful” and had been punished enough.

But while U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock agreed in sentencing her to time served that Sui had spent enough time in prison, he said she deserved the maximum fine possible...

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