Singer fashioned a fake application for Guo that described her as a top-notch soccer player. It was then submitted to Yale by a soccer coach who took a $400,000 bribe. Once she was admitted, Guo’s family paid $1.2 million to Singer.
Guo moved to California from China to attend JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, where she earned high marks and was an accomplished artist, Spertus said. Her strong grades and test scores were especially impressive given that she taught herself English, he added.
Singer paid a Yale women’s soccer coach $400,000 to pass Guo off as a recruited soccer player in late 2017, despite Guo never having played the sport competitively, prosecutors said in a court filing. Her status as a recruited athlete “significantly improved” her chances of being accepted, they said., has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and fraud conspiracy. Singer has pleaded guilty to four felonies.
Apart from Yang referring Guo’s father to Singer, the spokeswoman said, “no other relationship existed or exists today between Oppenheimer and the Guo family.”
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