Ex-Pimco CEO’s Bid for Second Chance Is a Scam Itself, U.S. Says
- Douglas Hodge in admissions scandal may get new hearing
- Prosecutors urge judge to slam the book closed on his case
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Former Pimco chief Douglas Hodge, who got the toughest sentence of all the parents so far in the U.S. college admissions scandal, snatched prized places away from honest applicants knowing it was all a fraud, prosecutors said in urging a judge not to reconsider his plea.
“Hodge paid bribes, to individuals and to university athletic programs, to have his children recruited as athletes when they were not,” they said in a filing late Friday. “The Hodge children did not ‘obtain favorable consideration.’ Hodge stole admission slots for them from deserving applicants using illegal payoffs.”