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VETERANS and members of the community gathered to pay their respects in an annual tribute to a Second World War air force mission.
The head of a private equity firm and former Staples Inc. executive convicted of bribery and fraud charges for trying to pay more than $1.2 million to buy his three children’s way into elite universities has asked the court to allow him to remain free pending his appeal.
John Wilson was sentenced to 15 months in prison, the longest sentence so far handed down in the bribery scandal dubbed Operation Varsity Blues.
The head of a private equity firm and former Staples Inc. executive convicted of bribery and fraud charges for trying to pay more than $1.2 million to buy his three
Last month, the longest prison sentence yet in the 2019 college admissions scandal was issued as John Wilson, the founder of a private equity firm, was sentenced to 15 months for giving $1.2 million in bribes to get his three children admitted to Harvard, Stanford and the University of Southern California. Wilson is but one of dozens of parents and college officials who have been charged in the scandal code-named Operation Varsity Blues. And while that scandal has revealed some of the more unseemly admissions “side doors” available to wealthy and corrupt parents, the real scandal remains t...