Bloomberg News
@Bloomberg-News·2.8M subscribers·40.1K videos
Felicity Huffman Begins 14-Day Prison Sentence in College Admissions Scandal
Posted
October 15, 2019
Views
28,823
Likes
126
Comments
365
Engagement
October 15, 2019
28,823
126
365
1.70%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
1:01Now PlayingActor Felicity Huffman, one of dozens of parents caught up in a major U.S. college-admissions scandal, began serving her two-week sentence at a prison in northern California after admitting she paid to rig her daughter’s entrance-exam scores.
Huffman, 56, reported on Tuesday to a federal prison in Dublin, California, her representative said in a statement. That’s ahead of the original Oct. 25 surrender date ordered by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani last month. Huffman pleaded guilty in May.
The low-security federal correctional facility southeast of San Francisco has a population of about 1,227 inmates, with about 1,052 at the prison and another 175 at a camp, according to its website.
The “Desperate Housewives” star admitted paying $15,000 to Rick Singer, the admitted mastermind of the college-admission scheme, to boost her daughter’s SAT scores by 400 points compared with test results the student got a year earlier.
Huffman is one of 15 parents who’ve pleaded guilty in the college admissions case, the largest ever prosecuted by the U.S.
After she’s freed, Huffman will perform 250 hours of community service as directed by the court, according to the statement from her representative. Huffman also was ordered to pay a $30,000 fine.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
TICTOC ON SOCIAL:
Follow TicToc on Twitter
Like TicToc on Facebook
Follow TicToc on Instagram
Subscribe to our newsletter
TicToc by Bloomberg is global news for the life you lead. We are a 24/7 news network that covers breaking news, politics, technology, business and entertainment stories from around the globe, supported by a network of Bloomberg’s 2,700 journalists across 120 countries.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
