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Saturday, March 20, 2021

Admissions Scandal Aftershocks

One aftershock of the admissions scandal as it affected UC was the discussion of admissions at last week's UC Regents meetings.* But there was another aftershock within the judicial system, specifically related to UCLA:

A former University of California, Los Angeles men's soccer coach was sentenced to eight months behind bars Friday for pocketing $200,000 in bribes to help applicants get into the school as bogus athletic recruits. Jorge Salcedo told the judge that he joined in the college admissions bribery scheme because he was desperate for cash after buying a house his family couldn't afford. Salcedo said he takes complete responsibility for his actions that have destroyed the life he knew. "I am a different man than I was two years ago and I will never make decisions like this again," Salcedo said during a hearing held via videoconference. Salcedo's is one of the longest sentences that have been handed down so far in the case dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues," which in 2019 uncovered a scheme to get wealthy parents' kids into elite universities with fake athletic credentials or bogus test scores...

Full story at https://www.local10.com/sports/2021/03/19/ex-ucla-coach-gets-8-months-in-prison-for-admissions-scam/

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/03/watch-march-17-morning-sessions-of.html

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