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Ex-Harvard coach, businessman charged in $1.5M bribes scheme

by Alanna Durkin Richer
| November 16, 2020 9:06 AM

BOSTON (AP) — The former fencing coach at Harvard and a wealthy Maryland businessman were arrested Monday on accusations that the coach accepted $1.5 million in bribes in exchange for helping the businessman get his two sons into the Ivy League school as recruited fencers.

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