BOSTON - Former coaches from the University of Southern California and Georgetown University are among a dozen people due in court on Monday to face charges that they participated in the largest college admissions fraud scheme uncovered in U.S. history.
The defendants include Gordon Ernst, Georgetown’s former head tennis coach; Jorge Salcedo, the former men’s soccer head coach at the University of California at Los Angeles , and Donna Heinel, USC’s former associate athletic director. Nina Marino, Heinel’s lawyer, called her client “a woman of integrity and ethics with a strong moral compass.” Other defense lawyers did not respond to requests for comment or declined to comment.