Admissions scandal leads to Gov. Hogan advisory board

A member of a board that advises Governor Larry hogan on trade issues, has resigned because of the growing college admissions scandal “Operation Varsity Blues." A new report from the Boston Globe says Jack Zhao paid close to a $1 million for a home in Massachusetts, which was only valued at $549,000. Zhao is a member of Governor Hogan's Asian Pacific Relations Advisory Board. It was owned by the fencing coach at Harvard University. Zhao's son was a junior in high school at the time. The Globe says he was trying to get into Harvard and on to the fencing team. “How consequential this is, who knows,” said attorney and Harvard Law School graduate Michael McCann. “Maybe it turns out that this was just an ill-advised idea to sell a house. Maybe the student would have gotten in anyway. Again, the optics of it are not good."