The trial of a former water polo coach at the University of Southern California has been delayed after the presiding judge tested positive for COVID-19.
FILE - Jovan Vavic, a former University of Southern California water polo coach, arrives at federal court in Boston, March 25, 2019, to face charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Opening arguments began, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Boston federal court in Vavic's racketeering case, the only coach of the many implicated to take his case to trial.
No other COVID-19 cases have been identified, she added. The trial opened earlier this month and is expected to last about four weeks. Lawyers for Vavic say the 60-year-old coach, who guided USC’s men’s and women’s water polo teams to 16 national championships, never took bribes.They maintain that some $100,000 was deposited directly into a USC account to benefit the water polo teams while about $120,000 in payments for the private high school tuitions of Vavic's sons were actually scholarships awarded by a nonprofit run by William Singer, the mastermind of the bribery scheme.
In all, nearly 60 people were charged in the investigation dubbed by authorities as “Operation Varsity Blues.”
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