national story with local ties the
College Admission scandal among the 50
people facing charges to our houstonians
and tonight channel 2 investigates is
digging up new information about them
now it's important to note that each are
accused of different things here so Lisa
Nicky Williams works at a local public
high school as an assistant teacher
which he's also a test administrator for
the College Board and a CT she is
accused of facilitating cheating on a CT
SAT exams in exchange for bribes another
is Martin Fox she's well-known on the
Houston sports scene he's president of a
local private tennis academy he's
accused of arranging bribes we have team
coverage Mario Diaz investigating Fox
Brittney Jeffers following the trail of
allegations against Williams we begin
with Brittany in downtown Houston today
we've been taking a look at a very
extensive 200 page affidavit looking
closely at the allegations against Nikki
Williams now she is accused of accepting
bribes from parents all across the
country and in some instances allowing
their children to change their answers
on their AC t score test charged with
conspiracy to commit racketeering and
released on $20,000 bond channel 2
investigates son Nicky Williams leaving
federal court on Tuesday in a Ford
pickup truck but the allegations involve
what prosecutors say happened inside of
the classroom college admittance test
scores and athletics are at the center
of the national scandal the problem with
the conspiracy is you don't even have to
know what your co-conspirators are doing
to help share on the crime and help sure
on the time even if she didn't know all
of the details of the cheating scheme
our legal analyst Brian Weiss says any
involvement can be a crime the accused
ringleader is William Rick singer
according to the FBI the conspiracy
involved bribing SAT and a CT exam
administrators like Williams to allow
stand-ins to secretly take entrance
exams at testing sites in California or
in Houston in place of real students or
to change or correct the students
answers to help secure their admission
into elite schools five pages of the
indictment detail an elaborate plan
where one of singers employees flew from
Tampa to Houston to forge a test for a
California high school student in a ho
tail room using this handwriting sample
the indictment shows Nicky Williams
quote was willing to do it and delivered
and picked up the exam why says it could
be a long road ahead for everyone
involved the fact that singer who is the
boss of all bosses in this case has
already taken a deal can only mean bad
news for the underlings in this case
including miss Williams and mr. Fox so
within the past hour I did speak with
the attorney who is representing Ms
Williams on the phone he says at this
point he's not able to comment on the
case but he did say that her next court
appearance will be in Boston reporting
here in downtown Houston I'm Britney
Jeffers KPRC Channel 2 News Thank You
Britney we continue our team coverage
now with channel 2 investigator Mario
Diaz mario has been looking at the
martin fox mario fox is the familiar
face to many locals connected to the
houston sports community right
that's right bill prior to entering
federal court yesterday Barton Fox was
better known around in the basketball
and tennis courts by coaches as well as
amateur athletes on an admission scandal
concept I've never seen anything like
this the case that has parents
questioning fairness and the college
admission process is still dominating
headlines more than 24 hours after
bombshell arrests in Houston and
nationwide this is about folks who did
the wrong thing for the absolute wrong
reason rich famous and not-so-famous
people like Houstonian Martin Fox
accused of giving and accepting bribes
to get students into elite universities
the feds say playing a pivotal role here
in Houston with test administrators as
well as allegedly bribing the University
of Texas men's tennis coach channel 2
legal analyst Brian Weiss says the case
is not as complex as it appears this is
pretty much a straightforward case about
somebody who has offered money who took
it what they knew and when they knew it
Fox is known in the local tennis
community as well as an amateur and
collegiate basketball circles Fox's
attorney Ken Shafer told channel 2
investigates the following in a
late-afternoon phone call
Martin Fox should have never been
charged with racketeering he is a very
successful tennis coach who has helped
multiple kids over the last decade or so
and catch a for Fox's attorney also adds
that he looks forward to having his
client clear his name in regards to
these charges now there has been one
other development and keep in mind there
were two stony ins arrested in this case
but three Texans that person being the
head men's tennis coach at the
University of Texas in the last couple
of hours
he has been dismissed from his position
at UT live on the west side more ideas
keep your seat channel 2 News thank you
Mario