U.S. District Court docket Choose Mark L. Wolf sentenced Rudolph Meredith, previously the top ladies’s soccer coach at Yale College, to 5 months in jail for his function within the Varsity Blues admissions scandal.
In 2019, Meredith pleaded responsible to 1 depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and sincere companies wire fraud and one depend of wire fraud and sincere companies wire fraud. He has additionally helped the prosecution with its circumstances towards mother and father.
Starting in April 2015, Meredith conspired with Rick Singer to falsely designate the youngsters of Singer’s purchasers as soccer recruits in alternate for bribes. Between 2015 and 2018, Meredith accepted a complete of $860,000 from Singer in alternate for purporting to recruit the youngsters of Singer’s purchasers to the Yale soccer staff or trying to facilitate their admission to Yale by different means. As well as, separate and other than his association with Singer, Meredith agreed to simply accept a bribe of roughly $450,000 immediately from a father or mother in alternate for designating his daughter as a soccer recruit to safe her admission to Yale.
The prosecutors stated that, as a result of assist he supplied them, he ought to be spared jail time, however Choose Wolf disagreed.
