A former head basketball coach at the University of Pennsylvania who is now with the Boston Celtics has pleaded guilty to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a wealthy Miami Beach businessman accused of paying him off to get his son into the Ivy League school.
Jerome Allen pleaded guilty to a bribery-related money laundering charge on Wednesday in Miami federal court and is cooperating with federal prosecutors in Miami in the case against healthcare executive Philip Esformes. Allen will be sentenced on March 11.
Allen, 45, who once played at Penn and as a journeyman guard in the NBA, is accused of accepting about $75,000 in bank wire transfers, luxury hotel stays, jet travel and limo transportation from Esformes, the executive who is charged with making the illegal payments and is also the main defendant in a massive Medicare fraud case.