SALT LAKE CITY — A Vancouver mother was implicated in the college admissions scandal this week for allegedly funding $100,000 in bribes so that her son would be a soccer recruit for UCLA.
The mother, Xiaoning Sui, allegedly paid money to William “Rick” Singer, who gave the money to UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo in October 2018, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Sui’s son was reportedly accepted to UCLA and received a scholarship. A fake biography identified her son as a soccer play from Canada, who was widely praised in the youth soccer arena, the LA Times reported.
Salcedo was arrested back in March — along with dozens of other parents, including celebrities Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — on an indictment that said he accepted a pair of $100,000 bribes for soccer recruits, one male and one female, according to the LA Times.
Salcedo accepted the male’s bribe in October 2018, according to the New York Post. He resigned from his position in March and pleaded not guilty.
Meanwhile, Singer has become a cooperating witness in the case after he was caught back in September. He helped wiretap his clients, which included Huffman and Loughlin.
Loughlin pleaded not guilty in the case. Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli are accused of paying $500,00 in bribes so that their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, would be fake crew team recruits for the University of Southern California.
Huffman, meanwhile, pleaded guilty in the case for paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to have the proctor fix her daughter’s SAT answers so she could have a better shot of getting into college, according to The Associated Press.