A federal jury is set to begin deliberations in the first trial of the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal, with two parents accused of committing fraud and bribery to get their children into the University of Southern California
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, following a nearly four-week criminal trial for two parents accused of committing fraud and bribery to get their children admitted to the University of Southern California as recruited athletes. Prosecutors and defense lawyers made closing arguments in the U.S. District Court in Boston on Wednesday, in the first trial in a nationwide scandal that highlights the extreme anxiety around admissions to selective U.S. universities.
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