Stanford Ex-Coach Gets One Day in Prison in College Scandal
- Vandemoer is first of 50 people charged in scam to be punished
- Sentence, adding home confinement, may offer hint of others
John Vandemoer walks into the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on June 12, 2019.
Photographer: Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesThe first sentence in the U.S. college admissions scandal was handed down, and it’s one day in prison.
Former Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer, who will also have to serve six months of home confinement and pay a $10,000 fine, was “probably the least culpable of all of the defendants” because he didn’t personally profit from the scam, U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel said in federal court in Boston on Wednesday.