Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the US District Court has sentenced Gamal Aziz to one year and a day in federal prison for involvement in bribery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Gamal Aziz, former Wynn Macau Ltd president, has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison in connection with a US investigation into allegations of college admissions bribery. In 2019,\u00a0Aziz was accused of paying US$300,000 in bribes<\/strong>\u00a0to get his daughter into the University of Southern California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He denied wrongdoing but was convicted last October of one count of conspiracy to commit federal programmes bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. The story became known as the \u201cVarsity Blues\u201d college admissions scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton<\/strong>, sitting in Boston, Massachusetts, also ordered Aziz to pay a $250,000 fine and serve 400 hours of community service. Aziz’s lawyer Brian Kelly said outside court his client would appeal the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the US District Court has sentenced Gamal Aziz to one year and a day in federal prison for involvement in bribery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Gamal Aziz, former Wynn Macau Ltd president, has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison for his involvement in a college admissions bribery scheme. The US District Court also ordered Aziz to pay a $250,000 fine and serve 400 hours of community service, with his legal counsel indicating an intent to appeal the decision.","focusai_entities":"Gamal Aziz, Wynn Macau Ltd, University of Southern California, US District Court, Nathaniel Gorton, Brian Kelly","focusai_location":"Macau, US, Boston, Massachusetts","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Wynn Macau Governance Impact","query":"What are the long-term governance implications for Wynn Macau Ltd following the conviction and sentencing of a former senior executive for bribery, even if unrelated to gaming operations?"},{"label":"Executive Conduct Standards","query":"How do such high-profile executive misconduct cases, even if personal, influence the broader industry's perception of integrity and the due diligence standards for senior appointments within licensed gaming entities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23632,23906,20777],"class_list":["post-27153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-macau-casinos","tag-wynn-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27178,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153\/revisions\/27178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}