Amin C Khoury

Prosecutors announced Wednesday that another parent has been indicted in the college admissions cheating case, accusing him of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Georgetown University coach to help his daughter get accepted to the school as a tennis recruit. Amin C. Khoury, 54, who has homes in Palm Beach, Florida, and Mashpee, Massachusetts, was indicted on two counts, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud concerning programs receiving federal funds, and bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. He was indicted by a Massachusetts grand jury Tuesday September 2 2020. .Khoury is the 57th person to be charged in the college admission scandal. Khoury, who is the son of billionaire Amin J. Khoury, is accused of agreeing to pay former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst $200,000 to designate his daughter as a tennis recruit to gain admittance to the school, despite the fact that his daughter's tennis skills were "below that of a typical Georgetown tennis recruit," according to a press release from prosecutors. Prosecutors claim Khoury flew to Massachusetts with $200,000 in cash, gave $180,000 of the money to a third party, who then kept $10,000 of the money as a "fee." Prosecutors allege Ernst "continued to pursue Khoury" to collect the remaining $20,000. Ernst has also been charged in the case.