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Former Yale women’s soccer coach Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith is going to prison after all. Meredith was a key figure involved in the “Varsity Blues” scandal that consumed headlines nationwide. This ...
A former University of Southern California coach accused in a sweeping college ... March 2019 in the headline-grabbing “Operation Varsity Blues” investigation. Prosecutors accused Vavic ...
Former Yale women’s soccer coach Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith was sentenced in US District Court in Boston on Wednesday to five months in prison for his role in the Varsity Blues college ...
By Anemona Hartocollis Jovan Vavic, a former water polo coach at the University of Southern California who was convicted of bribery as part of the far-reaching Operation Varsity Blues college ...
RELATED: Where is Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer ... a “win-win” situation and where he encouraged a fellow coach with doubts about the scheme to “just do it.” ...
A judge in one of the Varsity Blues cases put it bluntly in an order granting a new trial to one of the coaches who was convicted: "However distasteful, there is nothing inherently illegal about a ...
Some of that money was then used to pay test administrators or coaches as part of the scheme ... to the public announcement of Operation Varsity Blues, Singer turned over online communications ...
By Anemona Hartocollis After dozens of convictions of parents and coaches, Operation Varsity Blues reached something of a final chapter on Wednesday when William Singer, the mastermind of the ...
She said regardless, a decision by the 1st Circuit last year throwing out the trial convictions of two parents charged in the Varsity Blues probe ... and helped bribe coaches to secure his clients ...
Before the Varsity Blues scandal even became public ... of full or partial scholarships and legitimate walk-ons for whom coaches lacked scholarship slots but wanted on their teams.
Practicing in the Boston area, I followed the federal college-admissions prosecutions known as Operation Varsity Blues. These cases ... on tests and bribing coaches to label the applicants as ...