College admissions. What law is broken?

The parents, including Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, “were charged today in Boston in a second superseding indictment with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to use bribery to cheat on college entrance exams and to facilitate their children’s admission to selective colleges and universities as purported athletic recruits,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/04/09/lori-loughlin-indicted-grand-jury-money-laundering-charge-added/3412874002/

This discussion covers it from a number of angles.
https://www.fluther.com/213668/should-we-have-laws-governing-college-acceptance/