Their arrest comes more than a year after a newspaper reported that Brand sold his home for nearly double its assessed value to Zhao. Prosecutors say Zhao also paid for Brand’s car and made college tuition payments on behalf of Brand’s son. “Today’s arrests show how Peter Brand’s and Jie Zhao’s plan to circumvent the college admissions process ended up backfiring on both of them. Zhao’s older son was admitted to Harvard as a fencing recruit in December of that year, prosecutors said. Zhao’s younger son started at Harvard in 2017 and is currently a member of the fencing team, prosecutors said.

Source: Fox News November 16, 2020 16:30 UTC