‘Varsity Blues’ Parent May Recoup Seized $1 Million From the US

John Wilson, a private equity executive who paid the ringleader of the Varsity Blues scheme $1 million to get his children into Ivy League schools that was allegedly used as a tax-deductible donation, may reclaim his money, a federal court said.

The government must pay Wilson money he had transferred into William “Rick” Singer’s Key Worldwide Foundation account in October and December of 2018 as part of a “side door” scheme to get his twin daughters into Stanford and Harvard, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts said April 19. While the US said the transferred money put ...