Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer breaks silence with shock new claims about college admissions scandal

Rick Singer, the mastermind of the Varsity Blues assemblage admissions scandal, seemed unapologetic arsenic helium spoke retired for the archetypal clip since being sentenced to three-and-a-half years down bars.

The 64-year-old is surviving successful a halfway location successful Los Angeles, wherever helium is serving retired the remainder of his condemnation aft pleading blameworthy successful 2019 to racketeering, wealth laundering and obstruction charges.

He told Fox News on Thursday that helium is 'hiding successful plain sight,' capable to permission the halfway location astir days for a occupation with a edifice group.

'Now, idiosyncratic whitethorn admit maine and I tin perceive radical talking, but cipher cares,' Singer claimed arsenic helium looked backmost astatine his crimes.

He went connected to admit that helium is blameworthy of 'everything' helium was accused of, but claimed helium is not the lone 1 gaming the assemblage admissions system.

Singer was accused of accepting bribes totaling much than $25 cardinal from desperate parents - including celebrities similar Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman - who wanted to get their kids into immoderate of the country's champion schools.

He then paid disconnected entranceway exam administrators oregon proctors to inflate students' trial scores and bribed coaches to designate applicants arsenic recruits for sports they sometimes didn't adjacent play, seeking to boost their chances of getting into the school.

Singer adjacent vouched for the fake athletes, similar Loughlin's 2 daughters.

But others weren't adjacent alert of their parents' engagement successful their assemblage admittance - they would beryllium their SAT exam successful locations wherever the trial administer oregon proctor was connected Singer's payroll.

Once they'd completed their answers, the proctor would alteration them to guarantee they were correct. 

'He was the designer and mastermind of a transgression endeavor that massively corrupted the integrity of the assemblage admissions process - which already favors those with wealthiness and privilege - to a grade ne'er earlier seen successful this country,' prosecutors wrote successful tribunal documents.

At slightest 50 radical person pleaded blameworthy oregon been convicted successful the assemblage admittance ungraded arsenic of October 2023, including the Full House prima who pleaded blameworthy and served astir 2 months down bars, and Huffman, who was sentenced to 14 days.

Singer spent 16 months astatine national situation campy successful Pensacola, Florida, saying helium made friends with immoderate of the different inmates - galore of whom helium said were locked up for fraudulent COVID-era PPE claims.

He said helium has hardly ever eaten situation meals and alternatively tried to find steadfast market items to make his ain meals. 

The convict has since acknowledged his crimes.

'Everything that the FBI and US lawyer and everybody other successful the satellite says I did? I did,' helium admitted.

He went connected to 'apologize profusely to each of the families that I've hurt, each the kids that I hurt, the administrators that I hurt, my ain family,' and said helium did the astir harm to people's reputations.

Singer besides said helium considers his efforts to cheat the tests his astir brazen, describing however his strategy began with 1 pupil successful Vancouver who was intelligent but was a mediocre trial taker.

He said helium past paid Mark Riddell - who would aboriginal go 1 of his large accomplices - $10,000 to fake the child's last trial score.

Singer would not spell into details astir however helium forged the trial results, but said it progressive a fake ID and described it arsenic a satisfying, cinematic-like heist that paved the mode for his aboriginal misdeeds.

'What I tin perfectly archer you what I did bash that was amerciable was cheating connected tests,' helium said.

However, Singer said helium conscionable recovered a 3rd mode to get students into college.

He claimed that determination are 3 ways students tin get beryllium admitted into assemblage - done a 'front door' with morganatic merit and grades, done a 'back door,' erstwhile a household publically donates monolithic amounts of wealth oregon done his 'side door.'

'This has been going connected for hundreds of years, I americium not that astute to marque up this process,' Singer claimed, arguing that his 'side-door' deals were lone targeted due to the fact that they were done successful backstage arsenic helium questioned wherefore 'backdoor' donations fixed successful nationalist are much acceptable.

And erstwhile asked if helium thinks the assemblage admissions strategy could inactive beryllium gamed - and is inactive being gamed contiguous - helium replied, 'Every day.' 

Singer besides insisted that helium ne'er took a spot from a deserving student, alternatively claiming his strategy conscionable exposed a fund maneuver that higher acquisition institutions trust connected - blocking disconnected definite 'spots' connected sports teams and wrong departments from mundane applicants and mounting them speech for large donors consenting to wage for student's admittance.

'In 90 percent of the cases, the coaches each twelvemonth are calling maine saying, "I got a spot open, I request to rise this magnitude of money... Find maine a family,"' helium claimed, arguing the assemblage admissions officers person not faced the aforesaid scrutiny helium has.

'The media missed that the colleges - they're my partners successful this,' Singer said. 'It takes 2 parties to play.' 

At the aforesaid time, Singer insisted helium besides ran a morganatic college-coaching concern helium claims helped get hundreds of teenagers into college.

He said concern moguls and Hollywood A-listers utilized his morganatic assemblage counseling for their children, claiming helium has built specified a revered sanction successful the admissions satellite that parents are inactive reaching retired to him for coaching, and were doing truthful adjacent during his trial.

'I walked retired of the tribunal - retired of the tribunal - and I amusement my lawyer my phone.  There's 93 texts: "Are you inactive coming implicit adjacent week?"' 

Looking to the future, Singer said helium wants to disrupt assemblage admissions and acquisition with his caller institution called Future ID Stars - which helium said volition destruct the request for assemblage for precocious schoolers crossed the state by identifying their IQ, skills and competitory borderline and placing them straight successful the workforce.

'We person a conception that everybody needs to spell to college, and it's the close spot for everybody, and you person to spell to definite schools to beryllium successful. And that's not the information based connected tens of thousands of kids I've worked with,' helium said.

But, helium promised, everything helium does moving guardant volition beryllium done legally with the reappraisal of attorneys - thing helium said helium wishes helium had done each along.