Of Course the Ex-Stanford Sailing Coach Was Sentenced to One Day in Prison

The college admissions scandal highlights the racial disparities in sentencing for white-collar fraud

Jared Keller
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4 min readJun 18, 2019

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John Vandemoer leaving court in Boston. Credit: Boston Globe/Getty Images

InIn the first sentencing related to the massive college admissions scandal that broke in March, former Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer, accused of taking $610,000 in…

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Jared Keller
GEN
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