Man at Center of 2019 College Admissions Scandal Allowed to Resume College Consulting Business
“Comprehensive life coaching and college admissions guidance with a hands-on approach that discovers how we can best help your child achieve their dreams.”
Do you remember this story? This man is going right back into the same business, but must disclose his past to new clients.
FOX News reports:
Rick Singer allowed to return to college consulting business after infamous ‘Varsity Blues’ scandal
Rick Singer, the 64-year-old man at the center of the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal was allowed to return to his old job by a federal judge, but must disclose his criminal past to potential clients.
Singer’s new coaching company ID Future Stars, which is focused on college consulting, says it provides “comprehensive life coaching and college admissions guidance with a hands-on approach that discovers how we can best help your child achieve their dreams,” according to its website.
Chief District Judge Denise Casper wrote in a Monday order that Singer must provide a specific, lengthy and detailed notice to parents seeking to retain him.
“In March 2019, Rick Singer pled guilty to federal charges-including racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice-for his role in what was widely-publicized as the ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scheme,” the court ordered statement says. “Specifically, Mr. Singer admitted to,among other things: bribing standardized test proctors and administrators to engage in cheating on college entrance exams (i.e., the SAT and ACT); falsifying students’ academic transcripts by paying third parties to take classes in their names; falsifying students’ college applications with fake awards, athletic activities, and fabricated essays; and bribing college athletic coaches and administrators, through purported donations to their programs and personal bribes, to designate students as athletic recruits based on falsified athletic credentials. As part of the scheme, Mr. Singer took in more than $25 million from his clients, from which he made payments to co-conspirators totaling more than $7 million, and transferred, spent, or otherwise used more than $15 million for his own benefit.”
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great resume to become a politician
“As part of the scheme, Mr. Singer took in more than $25 million from his clients, from which he made payments to co-conspirators totaling more than $7 million, and transferred, spent, or otherwise used more than $15 million for his own benefit.”
Oh, the criminal bastard! He used his own profits for his own benefit! Instead of sending them to ActBlue and living off EBT!
OK, I don’t see a big problem with this.
With all the admissions trickery that was allowed and encouraged in those days, I can’t say his was worse. It’s sad that families felt they were were forced to that because of all the DEI slots given to worse students from the preferred backgrounds. They had to pay for all this consulting, then pay full tuition.
The expensive part wasn’t the fake SAT score, but the fake athletic credentials. So just a high SAT score wasn’t enough. I remember their test takers could achieve a target score. They didn’t necessarily want 800’s. They might be aiming for, say, 720, but what got them in was the athletic endorsement. Do we really care so much whether USC was getting the best athletes for its sports teams?
If we just decoupled athletics from college, it would become so much simpler, cheaper and more honest. But there might be less room to hide garbage and subversive majors, and tons of leftist administrators.