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.
May 26, 2021
Three "Varsity Blues" parents facing a September trial asked a Boston federal judge on Wednesday to transfer their case to California to slim down the size of an eventual Boston trial and separate them from other parents charged in a separate admissions scheme.
May 21, 2021
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, can shake off the "Varsity Blues" in sunny Cabo after a Massachusetts judge on Thursday approved their plan for a weeklong Mexico vacation while they're out of prison on supervised release.
May 12, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge sentenced a former TGP Capital private equity executive to three months behind bars Wednesday for paying a $50,000 bribe in the "Varsity Blues" scandal to boost his son's standardized test scores.