{"product_id":"9780063020139_rigged-justice","title":"Rigged Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eformer Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college\u003cbr\u003eadmissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn\u003cbr\u003eunwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a\u003cbr\u003edamning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justice\u003cbr\u003eand fairness do not always intersect.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e For\u003cbr\u003eeleven years, John Vandemoer ran the prestigious Stanford University sailing\u003cbr\u003eprogram in which he coached Olympians and All-Americans. Though the hours were\u003cbr\u003elong and the program struggled for funding, sailing gave Vandemoer’s life shape\u003cbr\u003eand meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut early\u003cbr\u003eone morning, everything came crashing down when Vandemoer, still in his\u003cbr\u003epajamas, opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. He quickly\u003cbr\u003elearned that a recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge in a\u003cbr\u003esophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to\u003cbr\u003ethe endless appetite for university fundraising—and wealthy parents looking for\u003cbr\u003ean edge for their college-bound children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVandemoer\u003cbr\u003ewas summarily fired, kicked out of campus housing, his children booted from\u003cbr\u003ecampus daycare. The next year of his life was a Kafkaesque hellscape, and\u003cbr\u003ethough he was an innocent man who never received a dime was the first person to\u003cbr\u003ebe convicted in what became known as the Varsity Blues scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA true\u003cbr\u003estory that reads like a suspense novel, \u003cem\u003eRigged Justice\u003c\/em\u003e lays bare how a\u003cbr\u003esophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and university\u003cbr\u003emoney—and how one family became collateral damage in a large government\u003cbr\u003einvestigation that dominated national headlines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Vandemoer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46900045545621,"sku":"9780063020139","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063020139.png?v=1777422816","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063020139_rigged-justice","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}