July 15, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge said Thursday that "logistical problems" prevent him from combining two groups of parents charged in the "Varsity Blues" scandal into a single trial, as federal prosecutors had asked.
July 09, 2021
A dentistry professor at the University of Southern California admitted Friday to tax charges for writing off bribes that he paid to the central figure in the "Varsity Blues" scheme to get his daughter admitted to the elite school as a fake athletic recruit.
July 06, 2021
Fresh off securing their latest plea deal in the "Varsity Blues" case, federal prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Boston to jettison plans to hold two trials for parents charged in the college testing and admissions scam and try them all together in September.
July 01, 2021
A professor at the University of Southern California agreed Thursday to plead guilty to a tax charge in connection with the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scheme and allegations that he paid $100,000 to facilitate his own daughter's admission to the school.
June 29, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge has denied a "Varsity Blues" defendant's "hyperbolic" pretrial request to toss charges stemming from the college admissions scandal, rejecting claims that agents who arrested her more than two years ago caused her to suffer a dangerous cardiac incident known as broken heart syndrome.
June 18, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday ordered Netflix's lawyers at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for failing to follow a prior court order in a defamation suit brought by one of the parents ensnared in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal.
June 15, 2021
Five of the eight parents who are still fighting charges in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case will face a Boston jury in September and the rest will be tried in January, a federal judge said Tuesday, anticipating a more "normal" post-pandemic courtroom setup.
June 14, 2021
A woman who claims her stressful 2019 arrest in the "Varsity Blues" college admission scandal triggered "broken heart syndrome" can't use the rare condition to evade charges now that her trial is looming, federal prosecutors said Friday.
June 10, 2021
A bid by three parents charged in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case to move their trial from Boston to Los Angeles is nothing more than "thinly disguised, late-stage forum shopping," prosecutors said Wednesday.
May 28, 2021
A mother charged in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case asked a federal judge to toss the charges Friday, claiming the heavy show of force agents used in arresting her caused her to suffer a dangerous cardiac incident known as broken heart syndrome.