He was an A student, a star hockey player and the most popular person in his Wagar High School graduating class of 1980. To the shock of few classmates back then, the Côte-St-Luc native would later earn a scholarship to one of the best universities on the continent, Yale.
This information led authorities to William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind behind the bribery scandal, and it has since led to the arrests of 50 wealthy execs and celebs like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, who had paid huge sums — close to $6.5 million — to get their children into the finest U.S. universities.
Tobin, who has not been charged in the cheating scandal but is awaiting sentencing on the securities fraud, has one daughter who graduated from Yale in 2015 and two other daughters who are currently enrolled there. Fischler noted that he and a few other former classmates had unsuccessfully tried to track Tobin down a few years ago for a Wagar High reunion.
“But those who knew him best knew that there were family issues at home,” this classmate said. “He lost his mother to an awful suicide when he was very young, and his father had his share of difficulties as well.