William Rick Singer allegedly raked in more than $25 million from his clients and paid bribes totaling more than $7 million in the nationwide college admissions scandal.
Singer allegedly raked in more than $25 million from his clients, paid bribes totaling more than $7 million and used more than $15 million of his clients' money for his own benefit, prosecutors said.Singer said he now lives in a trailer park
and can't get a job, despite more than 1,000 attempts, because of his role in Operation Varsity Blues. "For most of my life, if not all of it, I have thrived on winning at all costs," he wrote. "My moral compass was broken and, increasingly over time, choosing right over wrong became less important than doing whatever had to be done to be recognized as the 'best.'"
By getting caught, he has been provided "the opportunity for insight, atonement, and redemption," he wrote.
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