Thread by @thegoalkeeper

UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo is in this.

https://twitter.com/novy_williams/status/1105483484439695361

Let's make this a thread.

"On or about July 7, 2016, CW-1 directed a payment of $100,000 from one of the KWF charitable accounts to a sports marketing company controlled by Salcedo."

justice.gov/file/1142876/d…

Salcedo has "been indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of
Massachusetts on a charge of racketeering conspiracy, in violation of Title 18, United States
Code, Section 1962(d)"

justice.gov/file/1142876/d…

"On or about May 20, 2016, Ali Khosroshahin, the former head coach of women’s
soccer at USC, forwarded the falsified soccer profile, ACT score and transcripts on CW-1’s
behalf to Jorge Salcedo, the head coach of UCLA men’s soccer."

justice.gov/file/1142876/d…

Now for the headline that's of interest to me, @1MatthewStock, @YDNsports, @mayasweedler, @DalenCuff and probably a fair few other people I know...

"From in or about April 2014 through in or about April 2018, in the District of Connecticut and elsewhere, the defendant, RUDOLPH "RUDY" MEREDITH,
conspired with William Rick Singer and others known and unknown to the United States Attorney
to commit wire fraud"

That is former Yale women's soccer head coach Rudy Meredith. He was in charge of the program from 1995 through 2018. He resigned last November.

yalebulldogs.com/sports/w-socce…

"On or about November 13, 2017, Singer [William Singer, who ran the enterprise at the heart of this] sent MEREDITH an athletic "profile" that falsely described Yale Applicant 1 as the co-captain of a prominent club soccer team in southern California."

justice.gov/file/1142886/d…

"MEREDITH designated Yale Applicant 1 as a recruit for the Yale women's soccer team — thereby facilitating her admission to Yale — despite the fact that, as he knew at the time, Yale Applicant 1 did not play competitive soccer."

"On or about January 1, 2018, after Yale Applicant 1 was admitted to Yale, Singer mailed MEREDITH a check in the amount of $400,000, drawn on one of the KWF charitable accounts."

"In addition to accepting bribes from Singer as part of the conspiracy set forth above, MEREDITH also solicited a bribe directly from the father of Yale Applicant 2 in exchange for designating her as a recruit for the Yale women's soccer team."

justice.gov/file/1142886/d…

"During the meeting, which was surreptitiously recorded by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), MEREDITH stated that he would designate Yale Applicant 2 as a recruit for the Yale women's soccer team in exchange for payments to himself totaling $450,000."

"At the meeting, MEREDITH accepted $2,000 in cash as a partial payment toward the $450,000."

Dear friends,

The Ivy League, for all the well-earned wisecracks aimed at it, is a conference where even minor secondary recruiting violations - attempting to lobby a basketball recruit's family in a supermarket, for example - generate banner headlines in the New York Times.

For the Ivy League to be caught in recruting bribery scandals - twice in six days, in fact - is quite something.

(Former Penn men's basketball head coach Jerome Allen, currently an assistant with the Boston Celtics, is in the other scandal.)

I know @IvyHoopsOnline doesn't do soccer coverage, but I can't help thinking that their headline should be "BOOLA BOOLA MOOLA MOOLA."