March 11, 2020
A former CEO and professional Canadian football player who was set to be tried along with actress Lori Loughlin and 13 other parents charged in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case will change his plea to guilty, according to a Wednesday court filing.
March 05, 2020
Former Pacific Investment Management Co. CEO Douglas Hodge wants his hefty nine-month "Varsity Blues" prison sentence reviewed in light of new evidence suggesting he thought he was donating to a university's athletic program, not paying a bribe to the mastermind of the college admissions scheme.
March 03, 2020
A Massachusetts magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Southern California to unredact emails it produced for a trial in the "Varsity Blues" scandal, finding that a Miami investment firm CEO implicated in the scheme cannot mount his defense with the redacted documents.
February 28, 2020
A recorded phone call between the "Varsity Blues" mastermind and federal agents could show that parents charged in the scheme believed they were making donations, not paying bribes, in order to get their children into college, a former Wynn and MGM casino executive argued in a late Thursday motion.
February 27, 2020
A jury will be selected in September in the "Varsity Blues" case against actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, as a federal judge on Thursday set the trial date despite the couple's accusations that prosecutors withheld evidence of their innocence in the alleged college bribery scheme.
February 25, 2020
A Massachusetts federal judge chided a "Varsity Blues" parent Tuesday for her "disingenuous" claim that abiding love for her children prompted her to bribe college testing and admissions officials, sentencing the heiress to five months in prison.
February 21, 2020
Michelle Janavs, whose father started the company that created the Hot Pocket, has argued the federal government has not shown any reason why she should not get probation for agreeing to pay $300,000 in bribes in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case.
February 13, 2020
Actress Lori Loughlin and other parents charged in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal asked a federal judge to schedule the first trial in the high-profile case no earlier than February 2021, pushing back on the government's request that the trials kick off in October.
February 10, 2020
Nixon Peabody LLP can represent a father accused of bribing his child's way into the University of Southern California despite the fact that it is also representing the university, which the government frames as a victim in the "Varsity Blues" scandal, in an unrelated case, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Monday.
February 07, 2020
A judge agreed to let Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, waive potential conflicts among their "Varsity Blues" legal team Friday, formally allowing Latham & Watkins LLP to represent the couple and permitting Donnelly Conroy & Gelhaar LLP to advise Giannulli despite a potentially thornier issue involving the latter firm.