LOS ANGELES—A former University of Southern California (USC) senior athletics administrator who was sentenced to six months behind bars for her role in the fraud and bribery scheme in which the children of wealthy parents gained admission to some of the country’s top universities as fake sports recruits has been released from custody, records show.
Donna Heinel, 61, was released from prison on July 5, according to federal court records.
Heinel pleaded guilty in November 2021 in Boston federal court to “honest services” wire fraud for arranging for more than two dozen students to get into the university in exchange for over $1.3 million in bribes….