Georgetown Could Have Blown Whistle on Tennis Coach Who ‘Recruited’ $2.7 Million Worthless Players
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Georgetown University is Washington's Harvard, and Gordon Ernst had been one of its princes until he plummeted to earth yesterday, arrested in the college bribery scandal.
It’s the rich and famous garnering the headlines, those who crossed the line from “donations” to outright bribes to guarantee their darlings admission to the top schools, like Felicity Huffman and the white-shoe lawyer at the top of Willkie Farr. But for every multimillionaire in the world of high finance, law, and Hollywood, there had to be someone of comparable status within academia to pull off admission for someone who couldn't tell a metaphor from a simile on their SATs, or hit a tennis ball that didn’t hit them first, ahead of students who could do both.