Actress Felicity Huffman&#8217;s brush with justice for her role in the now-infamous college admissions scandal has allegedly now mobilized her into helping more women be released from prison.
&#8220;After she served 11 days of her 14-day prison sentence for her role in the nation-wide college admissions scandal, the 56-year-old actress reportedly has been dedicating her time to helping women in prison improve their lives,&#8221; reports Fox News.
A source close to Huffman told <a href="https://www.etonline.com/felicity-huffman-wants-to-work-with-inmates-following-prison-release-source-says-136792" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Entertainment Tonight</a> that &#8220;conditions at the prison were very difficult&#8221; and that there were &#8220;no real programs or initiatives to help the incarcerated women who were there.&#8221;
&#8220;Felicity felt like the women in that facility were being discarded and left behind; they were forgotten,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;She loved the women there and bonded with them. When she left she felt guilty leaving them behind.&#8221;
This past April, Felicity Huffman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45733/felicity-huffman-enters-guilty-plea-i-am-ashamed-paul-bois">pleaded guilty</a> for her role in “Operation Varsity Blues,” confessing to paying $15,000 to an admissions consultant to manipulate her older daughter’s SAT answers. In a statement at the time, Huffman said she accepted full responsibility for her actions and apologized.
“I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions,” Huffman said in the statement. “I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them.”
“I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly,” she continued. “My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her. This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty.”
As a result of her confession, Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison while being ordered to pay a $30,000 fine, face a year of supervised release, and serve 250 hours of community service. The source close to the actress said that her community service will focus on helping the incarcerated women.
&#8220;She would like for her next community service work to be helping women who were recently incarcerated and need help re-entering society,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;This work will be a long-term commitment for her well beyond her community service hours.&#8221;
Felicity Huffman had previously <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/felicity-huffman-community-service-following-prison-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">worked as a tutor at the Teen Project</a>, which works with &#8220;at-risk homeless teenagers involved in sex trafficking and those who suffered from addiction issues,&#8221; as reported by Fox News.
&#8220;She&#8217;s been doing that for two years, well before this case happened,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;She&#8217;s been tutoring those girls two times a week for two years and this has been an amazing experience for her and her daughter. Felicity is not your average Hollywood actress.&#8221;

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A New Leaf? Felicity Huffman Now Wants To Help Women Released From Prison

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Now that actress Felicity Huffman has been given a sentence that includes 14 days in prison for her participation in the college admissions scandal, actress Lori Loughlin reportedly now regrets not taking the plea deal when she had the chance.
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lori-loughlin-felicity-huffman-prison-sentence-plea-deal-regrets">Fox News</a>, a source close to Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, told <a href="https://people.com/tv/lori-loughlin-is-processing-felicity-huffman-prison-sentence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">People</a> that the two are now reflecting on the significance of Huffman&#8217;s sentence.
&#8220;Lori is aware of Felicity&#8217;s sentence and is processing what that means for her,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;Her only move now is to take this to court and to prove that she is not guilty of what she&#8217;s charged with.&#8221;
&#8220;This has been a rough day,&#8221; the source continued. &#8220;Lori is going to move forward as best as she can, but now she has a little more clarity about what will happen next.&#8221;
This past April, Loughlin and her husband <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45978/lori-loughlin-mossimo-giannulli-plead-not-guilty-paul-bois">waived their right </a>to appear in court for an arraignment and simply pled not guilty against charges of mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy in the college bribery scam. The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Boston charged them with &#8220;conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to use bribery to cheat on college entrance exams and to facilitate their children&#8217;s admission to selective colleges and universities as purported athletic recruits.&#8221;
Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly worked in concert with William &#8220;Rick&#8221; Singer to bribe college officials and rig the entrance exams so that their children could be accepted into elite universities. If convicted, the pair could face up to 40 years in prison.
The source told People that Lori Loughlin and her husband certainly face jail time if they fail to beat these charges, adding that they now &#8220;regret&#8221; not taking the plea deal. However, Lori believes that she did nothing illegal in the first place.
&#8220;If she&#8217;s found guilty, she will go to jail; that is clear. And if another deal is offered to her, which I don&#8217;t think it will be, she will go to jail,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;Her only chance of avoiding jail is to beat these charges. Lori is a smart woman; she understands that. She’s scared and upset, but she’s resolved to be strong and to fight this. She will do what she has to do to protect herself and her family.&#8221;
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t understand the entire nature of the charges against her, and she wasn&#8217;t even sure if or how she had broken the law. It was very early, and she didn&#8217;t have all the information that she has now,&#8221; the source continued. &#8220;Based on what she understood at the time, she made the best choice for herself. Now there is no deal on the table, and she has to have faith that the courts and the prosecution will move fairly and not make an example out of her.&#8221;
Basically, Loughlin and her husband&#8217;s strategy is to plead ignorance. However, attorney <a href="https://westcoasttriallawyers.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Neama Rahmani</a> told Fox News that will likely not hold up in court.
&#8220;The government doesn&#8217;t have to prove that Loughlin and Giannulli knew what the payments were used for,&#8221; said Rahmani. &#8220;The fraudulent application to USC is enough to support the conspiracy charges. And there is more than enough circumstantial evidence to prove that they knew the payments were for an illicit or unlawful purpose.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51788/john-legend-defends-felicity-huffmans-14-day-paul-bois">John Legend Defends Felicity Huffman’s 14 Day Prison Sentence: ‘Jails Are Not The Answer’</a>

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REPORT: Lori Loughlin Regrets Not Taking Plea Deal In Light Of Huffman’s Sentence

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Amid the uproar over actress Felicity Huffman&#8217;s prison sentence of just 14 days for her participation in the infamous college admissions scandal, singer John Legend says that proper justice may have been done.
&#8220;I get why everyone gets mad when rich person X gets a short sentence and poor person of color Y gets a long one,&#8221; Legend <a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/1172898237927350272" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> Saturday, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-legend-felicity-huffman-prison-college-scam">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The answer isn&#8217;t for X to get more; it&#8217;s for both of them to get less (or even none!!!) We should level down not up.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans have become desensitized to how much we lock people up,&#8221; Legend continued. &#8220;Prisons and jails are not the answer to every bad thing everyone does, but we&#8217;ve come to use them to address nearly every societal ill.&#8221;
Legend then referenced the case of Kelly Williams-Bolar, who received a five-year sentence in 2011 (later suspended to just 10 days) for using a relative&#8217;s home address in order to enroll her child into a better public school.
&#8220;It&#8217;s insane we locked a woman up for 5 years for sending her kid to the wrong school district. Literally everyone involved in that decision should be ashamed of themselves,&#8221; said Legend. &#8220;It&#8217;s unconscionable that we locked a woman up for voting when, unbeknownst to her, she was ineligible. Her sentence shouldn&#8217;t be fewer years. It should be ZERO. And no one in our nation will benefit from the 14 days an actress will serve for cheating in college admissions. We don&#8217;t need to lock people up for any of this stuff.&#8221;
This past April, Felicity Huffman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45733/felicity-huffman-enters-guilty-plea-i-am-ashamed-paul-bois">pleaded guilty</a> for her role in &#8220;Operation Varsity Blues,&#8221; confessing to paying $15,000 to an admissions consultant to manipulate her older daughter&#8217;s SAT answers. In a statement at the time, Huffman said she accepted full responsibility for her actions and apologized.
&#8220;I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions,&#8221; Huffman said in the statement. &#8220;I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her. This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty.&#8221;
While District Judge Indira Talwani agreed with Huffman&#8217;s sentence, federal prosecutors argued she should receive a month in jail along with a $20,000 fine and 12 months of supervised release.
&#8220;She told you this crime resulted from the bewilderment of being a mom,&#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen told the judge. &#8220;With all due respect, welcome to parenthood. It&#8217;s terrifying and stressful. What parenthood does not do, it does not make you a felon. It doesn&#8217;t make you a cheat. This was a purposeful criminal act. The defendant knew it was wrong. She even noted an increase [in payment] could trigger an investigation. She mulled it over. She participated in the scheme. She lied to move the test. She called the College Board to make sure the test had been shipped. Happy with the results, she paid Singer $15,000 and considered doing it again. She sent the scores to colleges nationwide. But for her arrest, she would have succeeded.&#8221;
&#8220;This was not a blunder or mistake. This was intentional,&#8221; Rosen continued. &#8220;She showed contempt for the law and should be punished for her actions. Similarly situated defendants should also go to prison for their crime.&#8221;

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John Legend Defends Felicity Huffman’s 14 Day Prison Sentence: ‘Jails Are Not The Answer’

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On Friday, actress Felicity Huffman, best known for her role in &#8220;Desperate Housewives,&#8221; was finally given her sentence for her role in a massive college admissions bribery scandal — and it includes some prison time.
While prosecutors recommended that Huffman spend a full month behind bars and pay a $20,000 fine, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ordered the actress serve to about half of the recommended prison sentence, but tacked on 50% more on the fine.
Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison, a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service, and one year of supervised release, <a href="https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/09/13/felicity-huffman-sentencing-jail-prison-college-admissions-scandal-boston/">CBS Boston</a> reported.
While Huffman&#8217;s legal team pushed for a year probation and a lesser fine, prosecutors argued that anything less than prison time would mean little to someone so wealthy, and whose &#8220;large home in the Hollywood Hills with an infinity pool&#8221; would hardly make home arrest very uncomfortable, CBS notes.
&#8220;The &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; actress held hands with her husband, actor William H. Macy, as her brother followed the couple into federal court in Boston,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;She didn&#8217;t speak to reporters on her way in for sentencing after pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy and fraud in May.&#8221;
Huffman was one of nearly three-dozen parents caught in an FBI investigation, appropriately codenamed &#8220;Operation Varsity Blues,&#8221; which uncovered widespread college admissions-related fraud.
After being arrested on March 12, 2019, Huffman was charged with paying $15,000 to &#8220;admission consultant&#8221; Rick Singer in order to &#8220;improve&#8221; her oldest daughter&#8217;s SAT scores in 2017.
Prosecutors say that Huffman&#8217;s $15,000 donation in 2017 to Key Worldwide Foundation, for which Singer was listed as President and CEO, was in fact payment to arrange for someone else to take the SAT for Huffman&#8217;s duaghter. In April, she agreed to plead guilty to one count of &#8220;conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.&#8221;
The Key Worldwide Foundation website describes itself as a nonprofit which &#8220;endeavours to provide education that would normally be unattainable to underprivileged students, not only attainable but realistic programs that are designed to assist young people in everyday situations, and educational situations.&#8221; The organization says its &#8220;contributions to major athletic university programs, may help to provide placement to students that may not have access under normal channel.&#8221;
But as <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/College-Admissions-Scam-Follow-the-Money-Behind-the-Key-Worldwide-Foundation-507070751.html">NBC Bay Area</a> reported in March, a federal investigation found that the organization &#8220;used payments from wealthy donors to hide large sums of money given to universities as part of the overall scheme to bribe college coaches and other officials as part of the largest college admissions scam federal officials say they&#8217;ve seen to date.&#8221; Singer pleaded guilty to the charges in March.
Huffman was the first of the 34 parents charged in the bribery scheme. &#8220;Over the next two months, nearly a dozen other parents are scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty,&#8221; CBS noted Friday. While 15 of the parents have pleaded guilty, the other 19 are fighting the charges, including fellow actress, Lori Loughlin, famous for her role in &#8220;Full House.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46401/reports-heres-how-lori-loughlin-and-mossimo-are-james-barrett">Reports: Here&#8217;s How Lori Loughlin And Mossimo Are Going To Defend Themselves In Bribery Case</a>

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Felicity Huffman Gets Prison Time For College Admissions Scandal

Attorneys prosecuting the case against Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman have requested the star spend one month in jail and pay a $20,000 fine for her role in the college admissions scandal.
NBC News Correspondent Tom Winter reported Friday that prosecutors called Huffman’s conduct “deliberate and manifestly criminal” in a sentencing memo.
“NEW: Federal prosecutors call for Hollywood actress Felicity Huffman to spend a month in prison and pay a $20,000 fine following her guilty plea in the college admissions case,” Winter tweeted. “They write in a sentencing memo that Huffman’s conduct was, ‘deliberate and manifestly criminal.’”
Winter followed up this tweet by reporting that Huffman’s attorneys asked that she receive one year probation and community service instead of jail time.
“NEW: Felicity Huffman, through her attorneys, has asked the judge for one year of probation and community service,” Winter tweeted.
“27 people wrote letters of support to the judge including her husband William Macy and actress Eva Longoria.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">NEW: Felicity Huffman, through her attorneys, has asked the judge for one year of probation and community service.
27 people wrote letters of support to the judge including her husband William Macy and actress Eva Longoria. <a href="https://t.co/abNMJDnP4m">https://t.co/abNMJDnP4m</a>
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Justin Dougherty, an anchor and reporter for 7News, tweeted a portion of Huffman’s official request, where the actress’s attorneys “respectfully” requested she “be sentenced to a one-year term of probation, with a [sic] 250 hours of community service as a special condition of probation, and the $20,000 fine called for by the Plea Agreement.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">New: Felicity Huffman’s attorneys officially request the actress not serve prison time &amp; be sentenced to 1-year of probation, 250 hours of community service &amp; a $20,000 fine. She will be formally sentenced in 1 week. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/7News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#7News</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/collegeadmissionsscandal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#collegeadmissionsscandal</a> <a href="https://t.co/9gqaEpqG3K">pic.twitter.com/9gqaEpqG3K</a>
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Winter went on to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-call-felicity-huffman-spend-month-jail-n1050951">report</a> that Huffman “pleaded guilty earlier this year to committing mail fraud and honest services fraud in connection with a $15,000 payment to have an SAT examination proctor correct one of her daughter’s answers on the test.”
Huffman was one of several Hollywood actors who paid to get their children better SAT scores so that they would get into better colleges. Lori Loughlin has also been accused, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47793/lori-loughlin-convinced-shell-be-acquitted-college-paul-bois">believes she will be acquitted</a>.
In April, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46401/reports-heres-how-lori-loughlin-and-mossimo-are-james-barrett">reported</a> that Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli were “planning to plead ignorance in response to charges related to their college bribery case.

Prosecutors Want Felicity Huffman To Spend 1 Month In Jail For College Admissions Scandal

&#8220;Full House&#8221; actress Lori Loughlin turned down a plea deal because she believed that the prosecutor was only &#8220;bluffing&#8221; when he threatened to throw the book at her over the college admissions bribery scandal, but now she&#8217;s &#8220;freaking out&#8221; over the prospect of prison time, <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1031447/broken-friendships-family-fights-and-prison-sentence-anguish-how-lori-loughlin-is-coping-with-her-new-normal">E! News</a> reports.
Unlike &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; actress Felicity Huffman, who was also caught up in the bribery scandal, Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli (founder of Mossimo clothing company) refused to take a plea deal over mail fraud charges connected to the bribery scheme. On Monday, Huffman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45733/felicity-huffman-enters-guilty-plea-i-am-ashamed-paul-bois">pleaded guilty</a> and issued a lengthy apology. Over a dozen other defendants ensnared in &#8220;Operation Varsity Blues&#8221; have likewise pleaded guilty, but Loughlin and Giannulli turned down the offer. Now, according to E! News&#8217; sources, Loughlin is in &#8220;anguish,&#8221; realizing that she had failed to fully accept the seriousness of the situation.
On Tuesday, Loughlin and Giannulli learned that along with charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, they were also being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45765/lori-loughlin-mossimo-giannulli-indicted-fraud-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">charged</a> with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering. Altogether, the couple now faces up to 40 years in prison, E! notes.
&#8220;For awhile, as she rattled around the 12,000-square-foot spread they first snapped up for nearly $14 million in 2015, Lori was able to keep the worst of the &#8216;what ifs&#8217; at bay,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;Firm in her beliefs that surely she wouldn&#8217;t see the inside of a prison cell, a source tells E! News, she neglected to join the 13 parents (including fellow actress Felicity Huffman) and one university athletic coach who agreed to plead guilty to the charges of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.&#8221;
&#8220;She has been in complete denial and thought maybe she could skate by,&#8221; the source told the outlet. &#8220;She refused to accept any jail time and thought the prosecutor was bluffing. She was adamant she wouldn&#8217;t do any jail time.&#8221;
&#8220;Lori is finally realizing just how serious this is,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;She is seeing the light that she will do jail time and is freaking out.&#8221;
In her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45733/felicity-huffman-enters-guilty-plea-i-am-ashamed-paul-bois">guilty plea</a> Monday, Huffman took &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for her actions. &#8220;I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions,&#8221; Huffman said in a statement. &#8220;I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them.&#8221;
The actress not only apologized to her friends and family, but also to the students who were harmed by her actions. &#8220;I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly,&#8221; she said.
Huffman also stressed that her daughter had &#8220;absolutely&#8221; no knowledge of the bribery scheme. &#8220;My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty.&#8221;
H/T <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/10/report-lori-loughlin-thought-feds-bluffing-now-freaking-time-prison/">Allahpundit</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45765/lori-loughlin-mossimo-giannulli-indicted-fraud-paul-bois">Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli, Indicted On Fraud, Money Laundering Charges</a>

Lori Loughlin Now ‘Freaking Out’ About Jail Time, ‘Thought The DA Was Bluffing,’ Source Says

The following is satirical.
The wealthy parents who paid a college consultant to help lie and cheat their children into elite colleges have hired a prison consultant to help them deal with life on the inside. Even I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m not making this up, but it was actually reported by CBS News &#8212; although they may find out later I really did make it up and they mistook it for reality whereupon I read it and mistook it for news and rewrote my own satire as satire &#8212; which now I think about it may account for the entire news cycle of the last ten years.
The rich parents had their consultant cheat their kids into school by such techniques as photoshopping their daughter&#8217;s face onto the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger to get her a weightlifting scholarship then having the daughter show up at Yale claiming she&#8217;d had a sex change operation and was now a 110 pound female and was off the team. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger was later found in a singles bar trying to pick up men since he finally had the young girl&#8217;s face he always wanted.
Okay, some of this I may be making up now, but I&#8217;m not really sure.
Anyway, several of the parents caught in the scam are now planning to plead guilty, although not Lori Loughlin, the star of the nineties sitcom Full House, who is also accused of being the star of the nineties sitcom Full House, a far more serious charge.
According to CBS, the parents who have pled out have hired Justin Paperny, a former stockbroker who served prison time for fraud and now works with wealthy clients as a prison consultant.
Paperny says he can help his clients by photoshopping their faces onto the muscular tattooed bodies of MS-13 gangmembers so no one will dare mess with them in the yard, and also by raising the marks on their entry exams so they only get into the best institutions.
All of which goes to show that having too much money can drive you insane. And so can reading the news.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45733/felicity-huffman-enters-guilty-plea-i-am-ashamed-paul-bois">Felicity Huffman Enters Guilty Plea: &#8216;I Am Ashamed Of The Pain I Have Caused&#8217;</a>

Parents Who Hired Criminal Consultant Hire Criminal Consultant [Satire]

There will be no court battle for actress Felicity Huffman in the wake of the college admissions bribery scandal. According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/felicity-huffman-to-plead-guilty-in-college-admissions-scandal">Fox News</a>, she has now entered a guilty plea, accepting &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for her participation in Operation Varsity Blues while apologizing profusely.
&#8220;I am pleading guilty to the charge brought against me by the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office,&#8221; Huffman said in a statement obtained by the outlet.
The &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; actress went on to say she is ready to accept the consequences for her actions, admitting she has caused pain to her family and the &#8220;educational community.&#8221;
&#8220;I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions,&#8221; Huffman said in the statement. &#8220;I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them.&#8221;
Huffman not only apologized to her loved ones but also to the hard-working students who may have been harmed as a result of the bribery scandal. &#8220;I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly,&#8221; she said.
Lastly, Huffman pleaded that her daughter did not participate in the scandal and knew nothing about her actions. &#8220;My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her. This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life. My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty,&#8221; she concluded.
Huffman, along with two other defendants, pleaded guilty to &#8220;one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, federal prosecutors,&#8221; according to Fox News. A cooperating witness told the court that he met with Huffman and her husband, actor William H. Macy, in their Los Angeles home where he arranged to have their daughter take a rigged college entrance exam that would alter her answers. Though Macy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/felicity-huffman-to-plead-guilty-in-college-admissions-scandal">agreed to the scheme</a>, he was not charged alongside his wife.
&#8220;Full House&#8221; actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are also alleged to have participated in the scam and have been charged. They have not addressed the charges publicly.

Felicity Huffman Enters Guilty Plea: ‘I Am Ashamed Of The Pain I Have Caused’

The fallout from the elite school bribery scandal escalated on Wednesday, with a class action lawsuit filed by multiple students against big name universities alleging that they were not given a fair shot at admission due to wealthy students paying their way in and that the scandal has lessened the value of their own degrees.
On Tuesday, federal authorities revealed a massive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44553/feds-uncover-massive-college-admissions-scam-emily-zanotti">admissions scandal</a> implicating multiple elite universities, including Stanford, Yale, the University of Southern California, Georgetown, Wake Forest, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of California, San Diego. Some high-profile figures were named in the bribery scheme, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-uncover-massive-college-entrance-exam-cheating-plot-n982136">NBC News</a> reported Tuesday that &#8220;Operation Varsity Blues&#8221; ensnared several school administrators, coaches, and standardized test administrators, who helped get students &#8220;admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams.&#8221;
33 parents, including Loughlin and Huffman, allegedly paid college admissions counselor William Singer, who ran a college prep business, a total of $25 million to bribe &#8220;college officials, coaches and college entrance exam administrators, who then helped students secure admissions &#8216;not on their merits but through fraud,'&#8221; NBC reported.
On Wednesday, a $5 million class action lawsuit expected to draw &#8220;thousands&#8221; of plaintiffs was filed.
&#8220;The initial plaintiffs, Stanford University students Erica Olson and Kalea Woods, filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday, a day after federal authorities said they&#8217;ve uncovered one of the largest college admissions scams ever seen in the U.S.,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/usc-yale-among-colleges-sued-by-students-amid-college-admissions-scandal">Fox News</a> reports. &#8220;The lawsuit seeks $5 million on behalf of what the lawyers estimate will be thousands of plaintiffs who fit the criteria to seek class status.&#8221;
Olson appears to have been removed from the lawsuit, but three more plaintiffs have since signed on. &#8220;The new students hailed from Rutgers, Tulane and an unnamed community college,&#8221; Fox reports.
The schools named in the lawsuit include Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, USC, UC San Diego, UT Austin, and Wake Forest. The man at the center of the scandal, William Singer, was also named.
&#8220;The students who filed the complaint didn&#8217;t receive what they paid for &#8212; to participate in an application process free of fraud,&#8221; Zimmerman Reed LLP, the firm representing the students, said in a statement reported by Fox. &#8220;According to the complaint, these schools represented that their admission process would be based on the applicants&#8217; merits, considering their character and performance. Instead, the students allege that what they got was a process tainted by bribes and school officials who failed to assure an honest application process.&#8221;
The statement continued: &#8220;It&#8217;s a straightforward claim and a simple remedy. The students want their money back. They request that anyone who paid an application fee to any of the eight named universities but was denied admission gets their application fee returned.&#8221;
The lawsuit seeks damages from all the universities that &#8220;were negligent in failing to maintain adequate protocols and security measures in place to guarantee the sanctity of the college admissions process, and to ensure that their own employees were not engaged in these type of bribery schemes,&#8221; the firm explained.
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