Joe Montana has issued a statement defending his family's use of the college consultant at the center of an expansive criminal case into bribery at selective universities.
The former 49ers quarterback tweeted on Thursday night that William "Rick" Singer provided his family with "nothing more than minimal consulting services."
That draws a sharp distinction with the dozens of indicted parents, including celebrities and
Bay Area business people, that federal investigators said made large payoffs through Singer to college coaches and administrators or cheated in other ways to pry acceptances for their children into
Stanford, USC and other prestigious schools.
Mr. Singer's company provided nothing more than minimal consulting services to our family, like so many other families, with the college application process. Fortunately our kids were able to pick from a number of schools to attend due to their hard work and their merit.Thanks
— Joseph Montana (@JoeMontana)
March 15, 2019 Montana was not charged with any crime.
The revelation of a Facebook post by Singer in 2014 sucked the Hall of Fame football player into the scandal. Singer had reportedly boasted that Montana, the late Steve Jobs and Kleiner Perkins Managing Partner John Doer were among his clients.
