Jerome Allen admits to taking $300K bribe while head coach at Penn

[bac2therac]

WOW

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26234766/ex-penn-coach-allen-says-took-300k-bribe


Former Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen testified during a federal criminal trial on Friday that he accepted roughly $300,000 in bribes from a Florida businessman to help get the man's son into the Ivy League school using a basketball priority slot.

Allen, now an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics, pleaded guilty in October to accepting an $18,000 bribe from the man in 2014.

The $300,000 total wasn't disclosed until Allen testified during the $450 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud case involving Philip Esformes, a Miami nursing home mogul.

According to Law360.com, Allen also testified that former Penn assistant Ira Bowman, who is currently on Auburn's coaching staff, had knowledge of the scheme and became involved after Allen was forced to resign as the Quakers' coach in March 2015.

 

[Knightmoves]

If this type of financial corruption goes on at a school like Penn then who knows the extent of these types of activities at other schools.

Jerome Allen and Ira Bowman probably represent the tip of the iceberg of corruption in MBB.

Bowman was the prized player at Seton Hall Prep during his playing days. Just wanted to give them credit for that ha!

 

[HallX2]

I guess it was cheaper for daddy than millions to some building fund at Penn.

 

[APKnight]

Ah those dirty Ivies...

 

[satnom]

Not a surprise in the Ivy world. Like poster above stated, cheaper than building construction or high level endowment contribution to get your kid into the school. Worked out for the Jarrod Kushner family at Harvard.

GO RU

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

This was news a month ago...and at the time Jerome Allen things were still in the hallway of the Palestra.

This is the LSU situation in reverse.

 

[bac2therac]

well didnt he admit to 18k not 300k

 

[DHajekRC84]

what a world. are thee any clean institutions left?

 

[Scarlet Shack]

This one is truly crazy ...truly

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

This one is truly crazy ...truly

Not when you think about it. Average coach doesn't get paid much. They have the ability offer something that has monetary value.

 

[DHajekRC84]

40 people indicted across the country for this scam including several holier than thou Hollywood celebs.

 

[bac2therac]

Not when you think about it. Average coach doesn't get paid much. They have the ability offer something that has monetary value.

He had any Ivy education

 

[Scarlet Shack]

He had any Ivy education

Greene

Not only that...but he played hoops for penn. part of one of the better teams since their 79 run ...it’s surprising to me....anyways. I guess nothing should shock me anymore

 

[Knightmoves]

He had any Ivy education

Has not occured to me in the past but these athletic coaches at good colleges have the ability to work with the admissions dept to “track” the applications of qualified recruits (who may or may not get a scholarship offer from the school.)

One of my buddies has a son who was a vg hs baseball player a few years back and a good student. They interviewed at Harvard and the coach told them the minimum sat scores needed to be recruited by Harvard baseball. He didn’t meet the sat standard, but now I’m thinking that if he had met the minimum sat scores that he may have been accepted to Harvard even if he didn’t play baseball there.

Getting recruited by a college coach sounds like an automatic acceptance by the admissions dept at many schools. The school accepts all of the coaches submitted recruits into the college just in case the coach offers them a schollie. Very credible opportunity for the coach to collect a stipend for marginal recruits who like pay to play.

 

[pmvon]

Ah those dirty Ivies...

Larger story happened at several schools including some public’s, like UT.

 

[jonS]

If the reports are true it was a brilliant evil scheme. Present oneself as an athlete, get an athletic scholarship under less rigorous academic standards , and then drop the athletic pursuit once you've been admitted and started classes.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

If the reports are true it was a brilliant evil scheme. Present oneself as an athlete, get an athletic scholarship under less rigorous academic standards , and then drop the athletic pursuit once you've been admitted and started classes.

That’s how I got in to Rutgers.

 

[DHajekRC84]

If the reports are true it was a brilliant evil scheme. Present oneself as an athlete, get an athletic scholarship under less rigorous academic standards , and then drop the athletic pursuit once you've been admitted and started classes.

Photoshoped heads of applicants onto the body of athletes. Per the news.
6.5 mil to get 1 kid in?
One of the Hollywood kids quoted (on video) as saying " I just want experience game day and party. I have no interest in school. "
So you had to enroll for that? You could do it for free.