On Tuesday afternoon, Michelle Janavs was sentenced to five months in prison for her role in the college admissions scandal.
Janavsfor her two daughters' admission to the University of Southern California. According the the charges against her, she paid college scandal ringleader Rick Singer $100,000 to doctor college entrance exams and an additional $200,000 to get one of her daughters admitted as a fake volleyball recruit.
. Janavs expressed her remorse in a letter to the court, saying she “caused harm to other students who have worked so hard to apply and gain admission in a fair fashion.”53 people charged with participating in the college admissions scheme dubbed by the FBI as operation"Varsity Blues." The scandal involved wealthy parents paying large sums of money to Singer — a California college admissions consultant — to inflate or doctor test scores or falsify sports records for recruitment to gain admission to schools like USC and Georgetown. So far, 36 parents have been charged, and many were hit with the additional charge of money laundering for not pleading guilty quickly.
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