Ex-Staples exec gets longest term in admissions scandal

BOSTON — A former Staples Inc. executive convicted of trying to bribe his three children’s way into elite universities was sentenced to serve 15 months in federal prison on Wednesday, the longest sentence so far handed down in the college admissions bribery scandal.

John Wilson, 62, was also ordered to pay a fine of $200,000 and $88,546 in restitution to the IRS. Wilson was accused of paying $220,000 to have his son designated as a USC water polo recruit, an additional $1 million to buy his twin daughters’ ways into Harvard and Stanford, and then filing a false tax return claiming part of it as a tax write-off.