John Vandemoer, the former sailing coach at Stanford University, will be the first defendant sentenced in the sprawling college admissions scandal on Wednesday.
Fisher also emphasized that unlike the 10 other coaches and administrators charged in the scheme, Vandemoer is not accused of profiting personally from Singer’s bribes. Instead, both sides agree, the money was deposited into bank accounts controlled by the university and used to buy uniforms, pay an assistant coach’s salary and other legitimate expenses.
Nevertheless, prosecutors contend Vandemoer still benefited from the bribes. Plumping his program’s coffers, they said, “enhanced his own status within the university, gave him more money to use for the sailing program he implemented, and furthered his career.” Zumwalt said no student won a coveted spot at Stanford because Vandemoer endorsed them as a sailing recruit. One of the three applicants was offered admission, but chose to attend a different school and a second did not complete the application process, court records show. Zumwalt said the third student, who did enroll, had worked with Singer to falsely apply as a sailor, but ultimately did not win acceptance as an athletic recruit. The student was later expelled and credits were revoked.
The attorneys have filed with the court dozens of letters from family, colleagues and people whom Vandemoer taught to sail, attesting to his character and describing a life spent in the service of student-athletes he has coached and the two young children he is raising.
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