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Ex-UCLA coach gets 8 months in prison for admissions scam
Read full article: Ex-UCLA coach gets 8 months in prison for admissions scamFILE - In this March 25, 2019, file photo Jorge Salcedo, former University of California at Los Angeles men's soccer coach, departs federal court in Boston after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. AdSui was sentenced to time served last year after spending five months in a Spanish prison following her arrest. Salcedo is the third coach sentenced so far in the case. Michael Center, who was a tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin, got six months while ex-Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer got one day in prison which he was deemed to have already served. ____This story has been corrected to reflect that Salcedo was a coach at the University of California, Los Angeles not the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
'Operation Varsity Blues' reenacts and reorients a scandal
Read full article: 'Operation Varsity Blues' reenacts and reorients a scandalNEW YORK โ Chris Smith didnโt initially think the 2019 college bribery scandal made for a good documentary subject. He was editing โFyre,โ the hit Netflix documentary about the music-festival fiasco, when his longtime collaborator, Jon Karmen, suggested another real tale of fraud and spectacle be their next film. By shifting the focus, Smithโs โOperation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal,โ which debuts Wednesday on Netflix, attempts to reorient center stage in a headline-grabbing drama that has already spawned one Lifetime movie. The documentary, like the scandal, has a dose of Hollywood. โOne of the only people that got back to us was John Vandemoer.โVandemoer, a Stanford University sailing coach, was the first person sentenced in the scandal.