BREAKING: Felicity Huffman gets 14 days in prison in college admissions scandal
Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for paying to rig her daughter’s university entrance exams, a narrow victory for prosecutors in the college admissions case who wanted a heavier penalty, but argued some amount time behind bars for Huffman and other wealthy parents can be “the only leveler” against their money and influence.
In March, Huffman was one of 33 parents charged in a sweeping investigation into Singer’s scheme. Some, like Huffman, were accused of paying Singer to boost their children’s SAT and ACT scores. Others were alleged to have paid larger, six-figure sums to slip their children into elite schools — Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, UCLA and USC, among others — as purported athletic recruits for sports they didn’t play.
In making the case for why Singer’s clients should be incarcerated, the prosecutor described them in a court filing as suffering from “an astonishing degree of self-entitlement and moral insularity.”Rosen has tried to portray the case as an opportunity for the government and judicial system to push back against the greed and out-sized buying power of the wealthy in the country’s higher education system.
In a letter sent to Talwani, Huffman said she sought out Singer not to rig her daughter’s exams, but to provide legitimate college counseling to her daughter. Singer and his employees had been tutoring the girl for about a year when Singer told Huffman her math scores weren’t high enough to get her an audition at the colleges she hoped to attend, Huffman’s attorneys said.
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