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BOSTON — A former assistant football coach at the University of Southern California who created fake athletic profiles for the children of wealthy parents in the comprehensive bribery scheme for college admissions avoided jail Tuesday after helping convict others in the case.
Laura Janke, who helped master the plan to get students to elite schools as fake athletic recruits, was sentenced to jail and 50 hours of community service. Federal prosecutors praised her “extensive and valuable” cooperation in the government’s investigation and prosecution for not spending time behind bars despite her “outrageous” behavior.
Stephen Huggard, a lawyer for Janke, said his client is a “very good person, very sorry to have been involved in this and very happy to have this behind her.”
Also on Tuesday, a California couple who admitted to paying $600,000 to get their daughters to USC and the University of California, Los Angeles were sentenced to one year of probation and 250 hours of service. Bruce Isackson must pay a $7,500 fine and Davina Isackson must pay a $1,000 fine.
The Isacksons of Hillsborough, California, also collaborated with the government in the so-called “Operation Varsity Blues” case. Prosecutors also sought no jail time for them, telling the judge that their “acceptance of responsibility for their conduct was unbending, their sincere regrets.”
The couple paid the admissions consultant at the center of the program — Rick Signer — to have their eldest daughter designated as a fake football recruit and their younger daughter designated as a crew recruit. They also paid Singer to manipulate their youngest daughter’s ACT score by having a fake invigilator correct her answers.
The Isacksons were the first of dozens of parents charged in the case to plead guilty. Both Janke and Bruce Isackson testified in lawsuits against two other parents and another former USC coach.
“Davina and I deeply regret our role in the college admissions case and look forward to making it right by serving our community,” Bruce Isackson said in an emailed statement Tuesday via his attorney.
Of the 57 people charged in the “Operation Varsity Blues” investigation, more than 50 defendants pleaded guilty, including “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli and “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity. Huffman.
Three people — two parents and a former University of Southern California water polo coach — were convicted at the trial. Another parent was pardoned by former President Donald Trump, and a coach was offered a deal in which prosecutors agree to drop his case if he pays a fine and adheres to the terms of the agreement.
Another parent was taken over by jurors earlier this month over allegations that he bribed then-Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst to get his daughter to school. Ernst will be sentenced on Friday.
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