College Admissions Bribery Scandal Hits Obama Family's Tennis Instructor

March 13, 2019

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One of the college coaches caught up in the admissions bribery scandal was Michelle and Malia Obama's personal tennis instructor for a time. University of Rhode Island tennis coach Gordon Ernst was indicted Tuesday for conspiracy to commit racketeering when he was a tennis coach at Georgetown. Ernst is accused of accepting more than two-point-seven million dollars in bribes to put at least a dozen students on the Georgetown tennis team. The indictment says some of those students did not play tennis competitively. Malia Obama is a sophomore at Harvard and there's no suggestion she's involved in the scandal in any way. 

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