"Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged nearly 50 people, including Hollywood actresses, wealthy business leaders and coaches at top American universities, with paying or accepting bribes to admit student applicants.
At a news conference in Boston on Tuesday, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Andrew E. Lelling, called the case the largest college admissions scandal ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.
Both coaches and private admissions counselors received millions of dollars for helping to get students admitted as athletes to Yale, Stanford and University of Southern California, regardless of their academic or sports ability, officials said." …
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-cheating-scandal.html