“Everything that the FBI and U.S. attorney and everybody else in the world says I did? I did it,” 64-year-old Rick Singer told Fox News in his first-ever interview about his sensational “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal.
Not long ago, Singer was one of the most talked about and controversial men in the country. Today, he’s quietly living at a halfway house in Los Angeles, where he expects to finish out the rest of his 42-month sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to racketeering, money laundering and obstruction charges.
Singer says he’s able to leave the halfway house most days for a job with a restaurant group.
“I’m the guy that’s hiding in plain sight. Nobody even knows who I am,” Singer told Fox in an exclusive sit-down interview in Los Angeles. “Now, somebody may recognize me, and I can hear people talking. But nobody cares.”
Singer’s charity, the Key Worldwide Foundation, billed as a way to help disadvantaged kids, took in at least $25 million in what Singer calls “donations” from celebrities like actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, with the expectation Singer would work his magic to get their kids into elite colleges.
Huffman pleaded guilty for her role in the crimes and served eleven days of a two-week sentence in a California federal prison. Loughlin pleaded guilty and also served two months in a federal lockup in California.