A surfing exec who turned himself into authorities after high profile arrests in the college admissions scandal was sentenced today to 2 months in prison. He paid a quarter of $1 million to get his son into USC as a volleyball recruit.
Jeffrey Bizzack watched in March as 33 parents were arrested and charged with crimes he knew he had committed. Bizzack, a Solana Beach entrepreneur and well-known name in the surfing world, quit his job. He resigned from his board posts.
Prosecutors say Singer engineered dozens of such ruses that allowed him to slip his clients’ children into USC, UCLA, Georgetown and other elite schools. Bizzack — a former executive for the World Surf League, the clothing company Outerknown and the Kelly Slater Wave Co. — met Singer in April 2017, after being introduced by a mutual friend, according to a report prepared by a probation officer.
Singer passed the profile to Donna Heinel, then a high-ranking administrator in USC’s athletics department, Kearney said. Before putting Bizzack’s son up for consideration with an admissions committee, Heinel made one tweak to the boy’s profile — she deleted “a logo from the photograph indicating the name of the athlete actually pictured,” Kearney said.
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