March 20, 2025
A judge in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case won't allow a former attorney and television executive to seek First Circuit review of his order rejecting claims that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidates the legal underpinnings of the former executive's guilty plea, according to a Thursday decision.
January 22, 2025
A former attorney and television executive wants to ask the First Circuit whether her guilty plea in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case should stand after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that she argues invalidates the government's theory.
January 02, 2025
An attorney and former television executive lost her bid to have her "Varsity Blues" guilty plea undone after a federal judge found that she had knowingly admitted her guilt and that a recent high court ruling did not undercut the government's case.
April 10, 2024
The Boston federal judge overseeing the waning "Varsity Blues" college admissions case said Wednesday he should be the one to decide whether a parent who pled guilty in the scandal's early days should be able to have the conviction erased, calling her recusal bid "fraught with judge-shopping."
March 04, 2024
Federal prosecutors in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case said Monday that a former television executive's bid to vacate her guilty plea is "built on an Alice-in-Wonderland version of events" in which pretrial litigation and rulings in her case never occurred.
February 23, 2024
A former television executive looking to have her guilty plea wiped out in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case asked Friday for a different judge, arguing that U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton's "incorrect" ruling is the basis for her motion to vacate her conviction.
February 06, 2024
A former television executive who pled guilty to a conspiracy charge in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case asked a federal judge Monday to vacate her guilty plea, arguing that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling "knocks the legs out from under" her conviction.
September 29, 2023
A parent whose "Varsity Blues" fraud and bribery convictions were undone by the First Circuit was sentenced Friday to six months of home confinement for taking tax deductions on payments he made to the ringleader of the college admissions scheme, with a judge rejecting the government's bid for a 15-month prison term.
August 29, 2023
A parent awaiting sentencing for a tax charge linked to the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case ripped the government for "transparent vindictiveness" in seeking the same 15-month prison term he received before most of the conviction was tossed by the First Circuit.
August 25, 2023
Federal prosecutors have stressed that they have no intention to re-try a parent whose conviction in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case was largely thrown out by the First Circuit but argued there is still no legal reason to dismiss his case permanently as the defense has requested.