He got into Georgetown as a bogus tennis recruit. Was he in on college admissions scam?

To hear his lawyers tell it, Adam Semprevivo has worked hard to earn high marks his whole life - both before and after his father paid $400,000 to ensure an unsuspecting Adam was admitted to Georgetown University as a bogus tennis recruit.

He was misled, his lawyers wrote in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against Georgetown, by his father and a college admissions consultant who has since admitted to paying millions of dollars to crooked coaches in a cash-for-admission conspiracy that breached some of the country's most selective universities.

But in the telling of prosecutors who charged