Crossing the Red Lines on the Way to The Varsity BluesCrossing the Red Lines on the Way to The Varsity Blues

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, …They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. They are different.”  

—“The Rich Boy” by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

While some (rich or not) may feel many of the moral constraints of life are merely advisory, the rules governing taxation aren’t. The Operation Varsity Blues scandal represents undeniable civil and very likely criminal tax fraud. Wealthy families attempted to buy admission for their children into a number of elite national universities using a public charity to pay the orchestrators of the academic f...