Posted on 04/08/2019 12:26:18 PM PDT by C19fan
Felicity Huffman has agreed to plead guilty for her role in the college bribery scam.
The actress is among 13 parents who on Monday agreed to admit to the charges.
She was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud for paying someone to alter her daughter's SAT results to make sure they were high enough for her to gain admission to USC.
Other parents, namely Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimmo Giannulli, are yet to make deals or enter pleas.
The next step in Huffman's case is a sentencing hearing which is yet to be set. The maximum sentence for her charges is 20 years in prison, three years supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
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Then, they deducted those “donations to charity” from their gross taxable income.
If so, they might be in trouble with IRS laws and state laws.”
If they masked or tried to mask these payments as charitable and thus deductible, they’re gonna be in serious hot water.
Conspiracy and 2 counts of mail fraud are some serious felonies to have dog you all the rest of your years even without prison. ( until some commie president pardons them)
Yeah, but fact is most people aren’t going to get prison for trying to cheat their way in to college.
The biggest crimes were the bribery of university administrators.
The people running the operation and the bribe takers should get prison time.
In this case, celebrity status could serve toward doing time when a non-celeb wouldn’t.
Hence the immediate plea bargains and mea culpas.
And when 'compassionate' people want to wink at crime all the time - you get more of it.
Three years minimum security facility - you know - the sentence some middle class schmuck would get.
You had better have some REAL hefty good written into your will for her
“Other than that ..she should be treated like anyone else.”
Yes. And as I commented above, most parents wouldn’t get jail for cheating to get their kids accepted to a university.
I agree with that concept if equally applied but the reality is that average Joes with no priors get sent to jail every day on their first offense.
And of course the little princesses are as pure as the wind-driven snow.
“If they masked or tried to mask these payments as charitable and thus deductible, they’re gonna be in serious hot water.”
We have a widow friend, who pretends to be a dumb blonde rich bimbo liberal.
She has lunches and wine and cheese parties with elite liberals and tells her conservative friends what is happening with the elites.
Apparently, a lot of elitists in this state masked those payments as you noted as charitable deductions. There is some panic among these elitists.
Bingo. She wouldn’t be copping a plea if there were any chance of prison time.
There will be some token jail time. It’s required for the resumes of the prosecutors.
Probation is appropriate. This whole thing is dumb anyway. I also thought Martha Stewart should not have done time. Weirdly it seemed to be a good situation for her. She came out better then ever.
Yeah, but remember, she is an actress. I will believe the fear in her eyes when she is being marched into prision.
Where I practice law a first time non violent crime does not usually get ‘the average Joe” jail time. This one certainly would not.
Breaking the law is not dumb.
At least she admits “failing her daughter”.
Now, so should the crap schools her daughter attended.
How about 24 hours in the general population of a medium security prison? I think that would be fair.
Who wants to bet that somehow, someway she will try to claim victimhood status with her fellow liberals just like smollett did?
JoMa
Don’t send her to prison at our expense.
Force her to donate 100% of her net worth to a scholarship fund for non-celebrity children pursuing STEM degrees, based on actual intelligence and academic achievement.
Fine is cost of doing business. So it’s business as usual for those who can afford it. Send them to jail.
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