Former USC athletics official pleads guilty in college admissions scandal
by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
Nov 05, 2021
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Donna Heinel, a former athletics department official at USC, pleaded guilty on Friday in the college admissions bribery scandal, admitting she helped get students into the school by passing them off as elite athletes.
At a court hearing held remotely Friday, federal prosecutors in Boston told U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani they would seek a prison sentence of between three and four years. As part of the plea deal she made with prosecutors, Heinel will forfeit nearly $300,000 she received
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