Rick Singer, the man behind the notorious “Varsity Blues” college admissions bribery scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution and forfeitures.
The sentence is less than the six years prosecutors had sought for the 62-year-old Singer. The defense, on the other hand, called for little to no prison time. …
Singer pleaded guilty in 2019 to charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to defraud the United States. He raked in some $25 million by selling what he liked to call “a side door” into elite institutions such as Yale University, Georgetown University and the University of Southern California to dozens of clients.
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