Rigged Justice

<p><strong>The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect.</strong></p> <p> For eleven years John Vandemoer ran the prestigious Stanford University sailing program in which he coached Olympians and All-Americans. Though the hours were long and the program struggled for funding sailing gave Vandemoer's life shape and meaning.</p> <p>But early one morning everything came crashing down when Vandemoer still in his pajamas opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. He quickly learned that a recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge in a sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising--and wealthy parents looking for an edge for their college-bound children.</p> <p>Vandemoer was summarily fired kicked out of campus housing his children booted from campus daycare. The next year of his life was a Kafkaesque hellscape and though he was an innocent man who never received a dime was the first person to be convicted in what became known as the Varsity Blues scandal.</p> <p>A true story that reads like a suspense novel <em>Rigged Justice</em> lays bare how a sophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and university money--and how one family became collateral damage in a large government investigation that dominated national headlines.</p>