Hot Pockets heiress apologizes for trying to give her daughters an 'unfair advantage' as she is sentenced to five months in prison for paying $300,000 to get them into college

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 26, 2020 | Megan Sheets

[C19fan]

Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs has been sentenced to five months in prison for paying $300,000 to get her two daughters into prestigious schools as part of the college bribery scandal.

She told the judge that she was ' so very sorry' trying to 'create an unfair advantage' for her children.

Prosecutors had asked that she be put away for 21 months.

The judge went on the lower end of their request but also imposed two years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

[Kriggerel]

So, she’s upgrading to Alabama Hot-Pockets, then? :P

(google that term at your own risk...)

[Sans-Culotte]

I can’t get excited by these payoffs. I don’t see it as any different than Jared Kushner’s vile father buying Harvard a building and getting all his kids in, or C-average morons like George W. Bush getting into Yale just because daddy and grandpappy did.

Yeah, my outrage meter is barely registering over this.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I prefer the O Henry candy bar heiress.

[mmichaels1970]

Wonder if she’ll be able to buy Hot Pockets on her commissary account? If she does, will she get a residual from the purchase? If so, can the residual be put back on her commissary account? Could this cause a rip in space-time?

[FewsOrange]

or James Nolan doing a favor for his friend Fred Trump by getting Donald admitted to Wharton.
Or Donald making big donations to Penn around the time that Don Jr and Ivanka went there.

[pepsi_junkie]

She should have just had them check the “native American” box, that always works

[Vendome]

That is ridiculous

[RegulatorCountry]

Academic merit flew out the window for universities decades ago when standards were reduced or even waived for so-called disadvantaged students. Then there are the legacies and the children of wealthy families who created an endowment or donated to the university for some facility. That’s been going on for centuries. I’m not able to gin up any outrage over this as a result. If there’s any university that can demonstrate that some deserving student academically was unfairly displaced due to someone buying their way in, I’ll feel for that student. The university however is just money-grubbing as they always do.

[Rurudyne]

Unfair advantages are what life is about. But we suffer from politically correct tardicracy.

[wally_bert]

They’re breathtaking.

[PGR88]

American Justice is very good at hunting down and punishing white-collar offenders of all kinds - who are outside the highest levels of Wall Street or Washington DC.

[Alberta's Child]

I can't imagine a jury would ever convict someone in one of these cases.

If I was a juror in one of these trials I would laugh in the prosecutor's face and ask him why the hell he has the time to deal with such trivial matters in a Federal court.

I'm sure the founders of this country would vomit at the thought of Federal courts being used to prosecute people for lying on college applications.

[mylife]

:)

[newfreep]

It appears the heiress loves Hot Pockets, too...

[knarf]

This is SO wrong on many levels, not the least being multiple felons walking free and seemingly untouchable, but as guilty as murder on the White House lawn.

Pardon pen about to be uncapped, imo.

[mylife]

Sue Ellen Michke?!!

[Truthoverpower]

Must be nice to have that kind of 💰 I’m telling my kids online is the way to go Or community college Or tech school

[I want the USA back]

Sorry because she got caught.

[old curmudgeon]

No.

The most shocking part of the story is that so far there has been no mention of the crooks in the universities getting sent to prison.

Big dim donors, big dollars to the dims = get out of jail free.

[Sacajaweau]

The prison sentence is unnecessary. Let them send $300,000 to St. Jude’s.