Robert Zangrillo, one of the main investors in the controversial Magic City Innovation District project in Little Haiti, has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud by the Department of Justice.
Zangrillo, the CEO of the Miami-based investment firm Dragon Global, was one of 33 parents accused on Tuesday morning with paying a third party to help get their children accepted into elite universities around the U.S.
According to the complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday, Zangrillo paid William Rick Singer an undisclosed amount of money to get his daughter recruited by the crew team at the University of Southern California in 2018, even though she had never rowed competitively.
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