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Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days behind bars for her role in the college admissions scandal.

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  5 years ago  •  22 comments

Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days behind bars for her role in the college admissions scandal.
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Felicity Huffman Gets 14 Days in College Admissions Scam






Felicity Huffman   was sentenced to 14 days behind bars for her role in the   college admissions scandal .

The   Desperate Housewives   actress, 56, faced a judge on Friday afternoon in a federal courtroom in Boston. In addition to the 14 days incarceration, the judge fined her $30,000 and said she would be on supervised release for one year. She will also have to do 250 hours of community service.

Huffman arrived in court holding the hand of her husband,   William H. Macy . She wore a short-sleeved navy blue dress and low-heeled beige pumps.

She tearfully addressed the judge prior to sentencing, apologizing for her criminal actions and saying she deserved whatever sentence she got. While she spoke, Macy’s eyes welled up with tears.

Huffman must begin her incarceration within 60 days, the judge said. The judge will recommend where she serves her sentence. Martin Murphy, her attorney, asked the judge that Huffman serve her time in a Dublin, Calif. correctional institution near her home.


Huffman   pleaded guilty   in May to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Prosecutors had recommended that she serve one month in prison, 12 years of supervised release, and pay a $20,000 fine. Huffman’s lawyers asked that she receive one year of probation, 250 hours of community service, and a $20,000 fine.


On March 12, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts announced that it had charged 50 people — including Huffman and fellow actress   Lori Loughlin   — in the cheating scandal. The two actresses, along with coaches, admissions counselors, parents, and Laughlin’s husband, fashion designer   J. Mossimo Giannulli , were indicted on accusations of falsifying SAT scores and lying about their athletic skills, among other alleged crimes. (Loughlin and Giannulli have pleaded not guilty.)

Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that   Huffman paid $15,000   to admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation (“KWF”), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes. Singer then facilitated cheating on Huffman’s daughter’s SAT test by having a proctor correct the teen’s answers after the fact.






Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy

Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe via Getty





Huffman discussed the scheme in a phone call with Singer that was recorded by investigators.

In   an emotional letter   to the judge, Huffman says it was “desperation to be a good mother” that led her to pay $15,000 to fake her daughter’s SAT scores — and she’ll feel “utter shame” for the rest of her life.



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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

If you are wealthy and "famous" you get 14 days. 

Poor kid steals a candy bar in some places and gets the book thrown at him. 

I would think at least 90 days in jail and 2 years probation should have been in order for this cheat. 

 
 
 
Jack_TX
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1.1  Jack_TX  replied to  JohnRussell @1    5 years ago
I would think at least 90 days in jail and 2 years probation should have been in order for this cheat.

Just curious, and serious question.. why 90 days?  Why not 10 months or 3 years or some other time period?

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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1.3  KDMichigan  replied to  JohnRussell @1    5 years ago
If you are wealthy and "famous" you get 14 days. 

I think she should have got more time for being a typical liberal hypocrite.

Isn't she one of the Hollywood anti trumpers?

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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1.3.2  KDMichigan  replied to  XDm9mm @1.3.1    5 years ago
You even had to ask that?

jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif You know it was rhetorical.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.4  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @1    5 years ago

This was a victimless crime, she didn't hurt or kill anyone. Probation and fine is enough. Probably get time served.

Comey only got a slap on the wrist.

Hillary was never even charged at all for leaking secrets to Russia.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.4.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @1.4    5 years ago

If there was a bottomless list of accepted applicants to these colleges you would have a slight point, but there isnt. 

She paid someone to cheat for her on a competitive test that determines who gets something (a spot at that college).

Although I tend to agree this is a small crime, America never takes white collar crime seriously. Corruption is not at all uncommon. 

 
 
 
Jack_TX
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1.4.2  Jack_TX  replied to  JohnRussell @1.4.1    5 years ago
If there was a bottomless list of accepted applicants to these colleges you would have a slight point, but there isnt.  She paid someone to cheat for her on a competitive test that determines who gets something (a spot at that college).

Wasn't this all discovered and reversed before her kids actually went to college?  Could be wrong, but I thought her kids were younger than most of the others in this thing.

 
 
 
TTGA
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1.5  TTGA  replied to  JohnRussell @1    5 years ago
If you are wealthy and "famous" you get 14 days.

Very true John.  I've seen people do more time than that for reckless driving.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

I think 90 days is the shortest "serious" sentence. 2 weeks in a minimum security prison is the blink of an eye. She'll probably spend it writing a magazine article about her ordeal.

 
 
 
Jack_TX
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2.1  Jack_TX  replied to  JohnRussell @2    5 years ago

She'll probably spend it trying to avoid being assaulted.

 
 
 
Tacos!
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3  Tacos!    5 years ago

Seems reasonable enough and the judge backed it up with some pretty solid reasoning. I think if the corruption weren't so widespread, she might not have received any time at all, but there seems to be a genuine need for a sentence that serves as a deterrent to others.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

Crystal Mason Reacts To Felicity Huffman’s 14-Day Prison Sentence

Mason faces five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election.
Mason was convicted of illegal voting after casting a provisional ballot in 2016 while on supervised release for a federal felony, but says she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote. Even though the ballot was rejected, Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson (R) still brought charges against her and successfully convinced a judge that Mason was guilty of illegal voting. During the sentencing phase of her trial, Matthew Smid, the prosecutor in her case highlighted Mason’s previous criminal record and said it was clear Mason had “no regard for the law.” When she was charged with illegally voting, Mason had gone back to school, gotten a job and pledged to her children that she would never go back to prison again.
 
 

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