Meet The Experts: John Wilson, Author of Varsity Blues: The Scandal Within The Scandal
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Meet the Experts with Howie Carr. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we meet the author of a book he didn't want to write. |
| 0:13.0 | John Wilson, a self-made Massachusetts businessman, found himself arrested, imprisoned, and convicted |
| 0:20.0 | of crimes he says he did not commit. |
| 0:22.6 | John says he was wrongfully accused of bribing a college to ensure his son's enrollment, |
| 0:28.6 | and was one of 53 defendants in what came to be known as the Varsity Blues scandal in 2019. |
| 0:35.6 | Join us as John tells his side of the story and what motivated him to spend millions of |
| 0:41.6 | dollars of his life savings to clear his name instead of pleading guilty. |
| 0:46.9 | You can read all the details in John Wilson's new book, Varsity Blues, The Scandal Within |
| 0:52.7 | the Scandal, available on Amazon and all other major online |
| 0:57.0 | book retailers. |
| 0:58.9 | And the proceeds of the book are being pledged to three separate charities. |
| 1:03.7 | Here's your host of Meet the Experts, Howie Car. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome to our latest edition of Meet the Experts. |
| 1:13.1 | We are joined today by a Massachusetts businessman by the name of John Wilson. |
| 1:19.5 | He was embroiled in a scandal. |
| 1:21.8 | Now it's six years old. |
| 1:23.1 | It's called the Varsity Blues scandal. |
| 1:25.9 | He's been through a lengthy process to try to clear his name, |
| 1:30.0 | and he considers himself the victim of a federal prosecutorial overreach, and I have to agree with it. |
| 1:36.4 | He's got a new book out, and it's called Varsity Blues, The Scandal Within the Scandal, and it's |
| 1:42.1 | available at Amazon.com, Amazon.com, and his name is |
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