There’s a new bust — and a new wrinkle — in the college admissions scandal.
Another dad will plead guilty to bribing his kid’s way into Georgetown University, federal authorities said Tuesday — but he didn’t go about it the same way as other well-heeled parents in the sprawling Varsity Blues case.
Pennsylvania father Robert Repella, 61, directly paid the school’s tennis coach more than $50,000 to secure his daughter’s place — and wasn’t involved with crooked college fixer Rick Singer, who acted as the middleman for other parents in the case, such as actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, prosecutors said.
Repella paid then-coach Gordon Ernst in 2017 in two separate checks of $25,000 each, court documents allege.
Ernst then sent an email to the college admissions listing Repella’s daughter as one of his recruits and asking them to send a “likely letter” to the girl.
Repella’s daughter — who was not named in the court documents — later received a letter from the school saying she had a greater than 90 percent chance of being accepted to Georgetown. She was formally accepted to the school in the spring of 2018.
Repella will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, according to federal prosecutors in Massachusetts.
Prosecutors have recommended he spend 10 months in prison and pay a $40,000 fine for his role in the scheme.
The feds have alleged that Ernst — who once taught former first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters, Malia and Sasha — was “the most prolific of all the coaches” busted in the scheme, personally pocketing more that $2.7 million for bringing at least 12 students on as bogus tennis recruits.
He has pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges, including conspiracy to commit racketeering and aiding and abetting money laundering.
Last week, 55-year-old Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty to bribing their daughters’ way into the University of Southern California as crew recruits.
The former “Full House” star agreed to serve two months in jail, pay a $150,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service in exchange for pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.
“Desperate Housewives” star Huffman also pleaded guilty to charges and served 11 days of a two-week sentence in October.