BREAKING: Felicity Huffman gets 14 days in jail as first parent sentenced in college admission scandal
Actor Felicity Huffman was sentenced on Friday to 14 days in prison for the role she played in the college admission scandal.
Huffman, one of many parents indicted in the FBI operation"Varsity Blues," was accused of paying"mastermind" Rick Singer thousands of dollars to have her daughter, Sophia Grace's, SAT exam score altered. She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in May. Prosecutors argued that community service wasn't a punishment since Huffman already participates in community service. Prosecutors claimed that punishment needed to be something a person didn't want to do, but"already does and enjoys."
"I don't think this is going to be the last 'Varsity Blues' scandal but I do believe without a doubt coaches and universities and parents and students are going to see this as a positive in terms of safeguarding their admissions process versus what it was before," Amy Goodman, a former associate director of admissions at Bucknell University, previously toldGoodman noted that increased checks and balances could be a valid preventive measure, there will still be loopholes.
"I didn't want my daughter to be prevented from getting a shot at auditioning and doing what she loves because she can't do math," Huffman wrote."...In my desperation to be a good mother I talked myself into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot."
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