What does the DOE think it might find? The colleges wouldn’t have known about the fake SAT results. And does the DOE think the college knew about the phony athletes? Why would the college go along with a student being admitted for being a phony athlete? If the college wants to admit some underqualified rich kid, they don’t have to go along with a baroque scheme to create a fake athletic resume; they can just admit the kid.
This makes no sense to me.