From his blue-collar childhood in Cape Cod, to building the chronically underfunded but prestigious Stanford sailing program for 11 years, coaching future Olympians and All-Americans, sailing gave John Vandermoer’s life its shape and meaning. Early one morning, it all came crashing down, when John opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. A recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge, and he had unwittingly been drawn into a web of lies and deceit. Though he was an innocent man, and pocketed not a dime, Vandermoer was the first person to be convicted in the Varstiy Blues scandal. A true story that reads like a suspense novel, Rigged Justice lays bare how a sophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and university money and how the size and momentum of a government investigation left behind one family as collateral damage.