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PARENT WHOSE CONVICTIONS WERE OVERTURNED IN VARSITY BLUES COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
SCANDAL CALLS DECISION ‘TRUE VINDICATION’

By Shelley Murphy Globe Staff,Updated May 14, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
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John B. Wilson with his wife, Leslie, left the Moakley Federal Courthouse hand
in hand in Boston on October 8, 2021. topic: 09VARSITYBLUESErin Clark/Globe
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A private equity investor who successfully appealed his bribery and fraud
convictions for paying $1.2 million to get his three children into elite
colleges as part of the sprawling Varsity Blues college admissions scandal
called Wednesday’s appeals court decision a “true vindication,” and said his
children were accomplished students who had been unfairly tarnished by the case.

“This has been a painful process for my family, and the court’s decision
reinforces what we have said all along: that I did not commit any of these
crimes and did not participate in any grand conspiracy,” said John B. Wilson,
63, of Lynnfield and Hyannis Port, in a statement. “More importantly, my
children were all highly qualified on their own merits for each school they
applied to, and they worked hard to earn their grades and test scores. Their
achievements were tarnished by this process, and as a parent this has been
heartbreaking to witness.”

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