The man who helped celebrities and the wealthy get their kids into prestigious colleges waits in a Florida mobile home park for his September sentencing.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – Bunny and Marge prepared the welcome packet like they do for all new residents of the Isle of Palms mobile home park. They tucked the introduction letter into a plastic sandwich bag along with a rubber Isle of Palms key chain and a $1.25 coupon for Saturday coffee and donuts in the clubhouse next to the shuffleboard court.
When William Rick Singer, now 61, turned up at the Isle of Palms in March 2021, the news flew through the 200-trailer park like aluminum awnings during Hurricane Irma. When the Bay Area News Group tracked him down on a hot summer day, Singer was exercising on his stationary bike on the screened-in porch of his pale yellow trailer. His skin was dark from the Florida sun, his wrinkles deep. He shook his head and smiled. His hideaway days were about to end.
Barbara West, a longtime resident of Saint Petersburg, Fla., wonders, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, how convicted felon Rick Singer was able to move into the Isle of Palm mobile home park. Residents at the Isle of Palm mobile home park in Saint Petersburg, Fla., cruise toward a trailer owned by Rick Singer, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. “I haven’t talked to anybody, nobody,” Singer said. “But I appreciate you trying to find the truth.”
Mostly, though, she can’t believe the park owners who require background checks let in a felon. Many of their residents in this “over 55” community live on fixed incomes of little more than $1,300 a month and have had enough problems lately, what with the new owners adding water meters for each trailer and increasing the price of laundry from 75 cents to $2 a load.
When Paluzzi asked why he chose Isle of Palms “of all the places in the world,” Singer said “he just stumbled upon it.” The trailer park is one of the least expensive in the area, she said, but it still earns good reviews. They did a background check and consulted with their lawyer. Crunched for time to submit an application to USC for Napa vintner Agustin Huneeus’ daughter, Singer submitted a photo of someone else playing water polo. Another father, Massachusetts private equity investor John B. Wilson, invited Singer to join him for a birthday party in Paris where he was renting out Versailles.
“I’m under the impression he’s retired,” said Bill Blankenship who lives in the bright blue trailer next door to Singer, “and wants to do good.” Singer even gave him a pair of pricey Hoka walking shoes to keep him going. “He started out giving a little fib,” Blankenship said, pretending that he bought the wrong size for himself. The gesture was welcomed and the shoes were a perfect fit.
And while she doesn’t really have an issue with Singer residing at Isle of Palms – he’s got to live somewhere, right? – she drew the line when he piped up at an HOA meeting one Wednesday evening earlier this year. Sitting at long folding tables in Harmony Hall, the board was discussing finding a better interest rate on its certificate of deposit set aside for things like replacing poker tables and repairing the bingo calling board.
“Thank you for your interest in wanting to help us,” she said she wrote, “but we’re going to manage this ourselves.”Singer was deep in a workout when a reporter approached him late last month from the other side of his screened Florida room.Wearing a lime green T-shirt from an Iron Man triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, he kept his eyes trained on the screen of his exercise bike – and just kept pedaling.
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