IMG Academy set to pay nearly $2 million in fines after students' parents linked to Mexican drug cartel

IMG Academy, a renowned high school that has become a stepping stone for aspiring college and professional athletes, will pay a fine of nearly $2 million after it was found that two athletes’ parents had ties to a Mexican drug cartel.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced last week that the guardians of students at the Bradenton, Florida, prep school committed 89 violations of counternarcotics sanctions.

"As a result of IMG Academy’s conduct...