Former Penn men's basketball coach Allen pleads guilty to bribery in admissions scandal

"Former Penn men’s basketball star and coach Jerome Allen pleaded guilty to bribery in a federal district court on Friday.

Allen had been implicated in an indictment of Philip Esformes, a Miami, Fla. businessman who allegedly defrauded the federal government of $1 billion dollars in a Medicaid money laundering scheme. Esformes used some of that money — allegedly more than $74,000 — to bribe Allen, then-head coach of Penn men’s basketball, to list his son, Morris Esformes, as a recruited player in order to help Morris get into Penn." …

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