LOS ANGELES (ProOmani/AP) — A Netflix documentary will use actor recreations of FBI wiretaps to inform the story of Rick Singer, the person on the heart of the school admissions scandal that despatched actors Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and and several other different outstanding mother and father to jail.
Netflix introduced Monday that “Operation Varsity Blues” might be launched on March 17.
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Named for the FBI operation that uncovered the scandal, the documentary will focus not on the convicted celebrities like Huffman and Loughlin, however on how Singer persuaded them and plenty of different rich shoppers to cheat to get their kids into elite schools.
Netflix stated in its announcement that the documentary will use “an modern mixture of interviews and narrative recreations of the FBI’s wiretapped conversations between Singer and his shoppers.”
The documentary is from filmmakers Chris Smith and Jon Karmen, whose earlier credit embody Netflix’s Fyre competition documentary and “Tiger King.”
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Actor Matthew Modine performs Singer, the admitted mastermind of the operation who flipped and began working with investigators, secretly recording his conversations with mother and father and coaches.

William “Rick” Singer leaves Boston Federal Courtroom after being charged within the admissions scandal in March 2019. (Photograph by Scott Eisen/Getty Pictures)
Greater than 50 folks have been charged within the scandal that noticed mother and father pay bribes to have somebody cheat on their kids’s entrance exams or fake their children have been star athletes for sports activities they didn’t play.
Singer pleaded responsible to racketeering conspiracy and several other different costs in federal courtroom in Boston in March 2019, and is anticipated to testify at defendants’ trials. He has not been sentenced.
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