A Georgetown student whose father paid $400,000 (£312,000) to get him into the American college is suing the university for not realizing he was a fake tennis recruit with no experience.
Adam Semprevivo, who had played basketball instead, put the blame on college officials who did not catch his bogus application.
Los Angeles executive Stephen Semprevivo, his father, pleaded guilty in a Boston court to paying $400,000 to bribe Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst to accept his son as a recruit on the team.
Businessman Stephen Semprevivo, pictured while leaving court in Boston, pleaded guilty to charges that he bribed a tennis coach to get his son admitted to Georgetown
The man, who was charged with mail fraud conspiracy, faces jail time.
The student said the records he provided to the school proved he had experience in basketball, but not tennis.
Stephen Semprevivo asked his son to claim he had played competitive tennis all through high school in order for him to get into the college, it is alleged.
He then claimed he was Academic All American in tennis and basketball and added he belonged to the Nike Federation All Academic Athletic Team.
Semprevivo allegedly asked his son to claim he had played competitive tennis all through high school in order for him to get into the college
Adam Semprevivo enrolled at Georgetown in 2016, but he never joined the tennis team.
The student, who had a 3.18 grade-point average, wrote a letter in April offering to 'resolve the matter' if Georgetown agreed to allow him to withdraw with no black marks on his transcript and transfer his credits to a new school, the complaint said.
He decided to sue when the university sent him a letter on Tuesday saying he was prohibited from withdrawing.
He filed a lawsuit against Georgetown on Wednesday, aiming to stop the school from disciplining or potentially expelling him following his alleged involvement in the admission scandal.
Gordon Ernst, pictured, left Georgetown in 2018 and in March he pleaded not guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge
Former coach Ernst allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
The university announced its intention to
