Last Friday, the Massachusetts federal judge presiding over the “Varsity Blues” case denied several motions to suppress evidence and dismiss bribery and fraud charges against the parents involved in the college admissions scandal. The case will now proceed to trial in front of a Boston jury this fall.
In speaking with The Mercury News about the ruling, Eric MacMichael observed that the “defense had strong evidence that the government was trying to ‘manufacture evidence of criminal intent’,” and that “given the importance of this evidence, an evidentiary hearing was warranted.” Because these “motions represented the parents’ best chance at ‘derailing the government’s case before trial,’” this ruling dealt them “a big blow.”
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