Many of Singer’s clients, including Wilson and Abdelaziz, allegedly paid to have their children falsely designated as athletic recruits.Īnother $6.4 million went to personal business investments and expenditures, George said, though she didn’t say what those were. He paid around $7 million to various university sports foundations as well as school officials, teams and coaches who prosecutors say participated in the fraud. Singer spent more than $20 million of his money, some of it in furtherance of the scheme, she said. Attorney Andrew Lelling cited when he announced the case in 2019. The amounts she detailed were slightly higher than the $25 million then-Massachusetts U.S. “The vast majority came from parents, approximately $26 million by parents,” George said of the funds that flowed into Singer’s personal accounts. The defense case is set to begin on Friday.ĭuring her testimony, George said her review of Singer’s personal and business bank accounts showed that he made a substantial profit from the wealthy parents who were his clients. George was one of the final witnesses to be called by prosecutors, who rested their case on Wednesday afternoon.
executive Gamal Abdelaziz have pleaded not guilty in Boston federal court to paying Singer a combined $1.3 million to arrange bribes to get their children into Harvard, Stanford and the University of Southern California. Private equity executive John Wilson, 62, founder of Hyannis Port Capital, and former Wynn Resorts Ltd. Private equity executive John Wilson, 62, founder of Hyannis Port Capital, has pleaded not guilty in Boston federal court to paying Singer to arrange bribes to get his children into USC. Singer invested some of his money in the Swansea City Football Club in Wales and the Sharky’s chain of West Coast Mexican restaurants, previously released court records show.
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Lauren George laid out the disgraced college consultant’s earnings in detail for the first time on Wednesday as a government witness in the trial of two of his former clients. William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind of the “Varsity Blues” college admissions fraud, personally made nearly $28 million from the scheme, a forensic accountant for the government testified. ‘Varsity Blues’ mastermind Rick Singer made $28 million in scam, auditor says Close Menu
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