College admissions scandal: Abdelaziz and Wilson are first parents to be found guilty
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A federal jury on Friday found two wealthy parents charged in a national conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college admissions for their children guilty on all counts, the US Attorney's Office announced.
Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson are the first parents in the scheme to be convicted by a federal jury, Liz McCarthy, a spokesperson for the US Attorney's Office - District of Massachusetts, confirmed to CNN.
In 2017 Abdelaziz agreed to pay William Rick Singer, the figure at the center of the scheme, $300,000 for the facilitation of his daughter's admission to the University of Southern California as a purported basketball recruit, court documents detail. Based on her falsified athletic credentials, the USC subcommittee for athletic admissions approved to admit her to USC as a basketball recruit.
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