A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned the convictions of two wealthy businessmen in the 'Operation Varsity Blues' college admissions scandal.
A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned the convictions of two wealthy businessmen in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal — including by rejecting a central claim of prosecutors that the fathers had knowingly conspired with other parents to buy their children’s way into elite universities.
However, all of Abdelaziz’s convictions and all but one of Wilson’s convictions were tossed Wednesday by the three-judge panel of the Boston-based U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in a 3-0 decision that they were based on misapplications of the law, unsupported by the evidence presented at trial, or tainted by the introduction of evidence about other Singer clients whom Abdelaziz and Wilson had nothing to do with.
That, she wrote, created “an unacceptable risk that the jury convicted Abdelaziz and Wilson based on others’ conduct rather than their own.” The court upheld Wilson’s conviction for filing a false tax return, for misrepresenting a payment to Singer as a tax-deductible donation.
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