Another parent busted in college admissions scandal

Federal prosecutors have busted yet another parent in the nationwide college admissions scandal, officials announced Friday.

Tech executive Jeffrey Bizzack was nabbed for paying $250,000 to bribe his son’s way into the University of Southern California as a bogus volleyball recruit — and has agreed to plead guilty in the case, prosecutors said.

The Solona Beach dad, 59, paid the large bribe to scam mastermind Rick Stringer in the summer of 2017 and his son was formally accepted into the school in March 2018.

According to court documents, Bizzack originally paid Stringer to facilitate his son’s admission to USC as a fake water polo recruit, but Singer changed the profile to volleyball before forwarding the boy’s academic transcripts to the school’s athletic directors.

Bizzack will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud as part of the plea deal — with feds recommending a nine-month prison sentence.

He is the 51st person charged in connection with the scandal, which has also ensnared actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, who are accused of paying bribes to inflate their children’s academic and athletic abilities.

A former San Francisco tech executive once touted as “one of the most successful industry executives in HR outsourcing”, Bizzack in recent years worked as a partner in famed surfer Kelly Slater’s Wave Company, which builds artificial wave machines.

“It would probably embarrass him, but Jeff Bizzack (my business partner) is one of my heroes,” Slater said in a 2016 interview. “He has worked with me on a number of different businesses, and he is a great influence, personally and professionally.”

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“He’s been my partner in everything I’ve done in the past few years,” Slater added at a 2017 event, surf magazine Tracks reported.

“I’ve been the face of it but Jeff is just the bones and structure of everything that we’ve done,” he said.

In the wake of the investigation, USC said in a statement it was conducting an internal investigation and is “in the process of identifying any funds received by the university in connection with this alleged scheme.”