College scam mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to prison
Rick Singer, the mastermind of the "Operation Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal that federal prosecutors say was "breathtaking in its audacity and levels of deception it involved," was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison. It's the longest sentence in the scandal but short of the six years requested by prosecutors. Singer will be on supervised release for three years afterward. Singer, a 62-year-old businessman from Newport Beach, California, had pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to defraud the United States.