“Kimmel participated in the college recruitment scheme by conspiring to use bribery to facilitate her daughter’s admission to Georgetown as a purported tennis recruit, and her son’s admission to USC as a purported track recruit,” the document alleges. The document describes Kimmel a resident of Las Vegas and La Jolla, California, and as the owner and president of a media company. His daughter enrolled at USC in the fall, according to the affidavit, but did not join the basketball team. He is accused of conspiring to bribe the senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California to designate his daughter as a recruit to the USC basketball team, “in order to facilitate her admission to the university.” The profile also lists a previous position as president and executive director of Wynn Macau Limited, responsible for the development of the $4.4 billion Wynn Palace resort, which opened in August 2016 in Macau’s Cotai region. Two people from Las Vegas - Gamal Abdelaziz and Elisabeth Kimmel - are facing charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.Īn affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, unsealed Tuesday, lists Aziz by his given last name, Abdelaziz, although he goes by the shortened version.Īccording to the affidavit, the Las Vegas resident served, until about September 2016, as a senior executive of a resort and casino operator in Macau, China, and previously held other senior executive positions in the hotel and casino industries.Īziz is currently listed as chairman and CEO of Legacy Hospitality Group on his LinkedIn profile. Dozens, including Huffman, the Emmy-winning star of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” were arrested by midday. Justice Department, with the parents accused of paying an estimated $25 million in bribes.Īt least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law, finance, fashion, the food and beverage industry and other fields, were charged.
(Steven Senne/AP)īOSTON - Fifty people, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders to get their children into some of the nation’s most selective schools.įederal authorities called it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. John Vandemoer, former head sailing coach at Stanford, arrives at federal court in Boston on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, where he was expected to plead guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.
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