A Chinese woman admitted agreeing to pay $400,000 in bribes to get her son into the University of California at Los Angeles, becoming the 21st parent to plead guilty in the U.S. college admissions scandal.
Xiaoning Sui, 49, appeared Friday in federal court in Boston and pleaded to a single count of federal programs bribery. A resident of British Columbia, she had been held in a jail in Spain since being arrested while on vacation there in October, and federal prosecutors agreed to recommend she be sentenced to time served.
Sui was released on $250,000 bond. Her attorney Martin Weinberg ...
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