FILE PHOTO: Martin Fox, a former president of a private tennis academy in Texas, arrives at the federal courthouse before entering a plea in a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
BOSTON (Reuters) - The former president of a private tennis academy in Texas was sentenced on Friday to three months in prison after admitting he acted as a middleman to pay bribes to help the children of wealthy parents gain admission to selective universities.
Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought six months in prison for Martin Fox for helping pay bribes to university coaches to designate children as fake athletic recruits and to a college entrance exam administrator to facilitate cheating.
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