“My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her,” Ms. Huffman said in a statement. “This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life.”
April 8, 2019
"The actress Felicity Huffman will plead guilty in the college admissions fraud scandal, prosecutors said on Monday, along with 12 other parents and one coach charged in the sweeping investigation."
The NYT reports.
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"Profoundly wrong." "Transgression."
At least William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman, famously Lutheran, are confessing to the literal truth: of having sinned.
I'm inclined to believe her when she says she'll carry that with her for the rest of her life. My guess is her daughter will forgive her. God already did.
Rich, cheating, Hollywood liberals -- the bill comes due.
But, I do like her clear non-weaselly statement.
Jail time? Don't think so. I'm thinking 6 months probation at worst.
Also, they should kick out the kids.
Also, I kinda doubt the kids are totally innocent. Kids tend to know what their grades/SATs are, and whether they earned it or whether they gamed the system. But, as parents, taking responsibility and not pointing the finger at the kids is probably the way to go.
“This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life.”
Yeah, but I'm confident an army of well-paid lawyers and public relations specialists will help ease that burden.
Wealth and privilege always makes burdens easier for the "elite" than for the common man.
Like most of Hollywood, these people have absolutely no morals. She's just sorry that she was caught, and has no problem admitting it, because nothing, that she can't afford will happen to her. There is a double standard, and most of us, on the bottom rung know it.
"God already did [forgive her]."
That's nice. How about the person she would have bumped if she hadn't been caught?
"...Ms. Huffman said in a statement."
Just another script for an actor written by someone else.
The college admission was a rigged outcome for cash paid in secret and the court plea was a rigged outcome too. But hopefully Trump's new brand of law enforcing officers got some witness testimony in exchange for these pleas.
Our university system is corrupt and bloated on student loan debt.
It is heaping debt on stupid kids and conferring credentials with no skills.
"Merit" is the most hated word in the "industry."
Our university system needs to be burned to the ground.
There are innumerable lessons here. One is that elite schools are now too elite. Once USC was a regional school. A Hollywood daughter wasn't competing with some kid from Delaware. That kid went to William and Mary or Duke or somewhere close to home. Now you compete with kids from Saudi Arabia.
So, what about the colleges where this happened and the other officials involved besides that one coach?
After all this time, I still do not get why the Federal Government has jurisdiction in this matter.
Anyway, I thought the FBI was busy investigating Russian spies, like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
I think that trying to fool college admissions offices is kind of cool.
It's like a fun battle of wits.
A major of purpose of college is learning how to get ahead.
I know Nothing! HA! So the daughter did not know someone took the SAT's for her. About that bridge in Brookline that I have for sale.
It was a very good apology. Clear, succinct, and free of bullshit (other than of course the potential for bullshit if she doesn't really mean it, but that's always an unknowable).
Okay, LYNNDH raises a very good point. Hard to imagine a kid not knowing that an SAT score being submitted wasn't one she earned.
After all this time, I still do not get why the Federal Government has jurisdiction in this matter.
Tax fraud, maybe mail or wire fraud. The money paid to Singer was represented as a charitable donation, as I understand it.
It's a solid apology; I wonder how much she had to pay for someone to write that for her.
She is going to do time in the racist sense of the word.
You don't have these problems if you send your kids to West Texas Junior College of Letters & Trucking.
Rich, cheating, Hollywood liberals -- the bill comes due.
That's a silly statement if you're attempting to generalize, either from Hollywood to this case or from this case to Hollywood.
Apparently they're all rich but only a couple of 50 people charged are "Hollywood" (the few who are in the news because some part of the public has heard of them or knows what they look like) - and who knows whether they're liberal?
23 of those 50 are listed in the link below - I randomly checked out five of them and none had any association with "Hollywood", but they were all in California, although some of the schools were not.
After all this time, I still do not get why the Federal Government has jurisdiction in this matter.
As an FBI Special Agent,blah blah, Section 2510(7), in that I am empowered by law to conduct investigations of, and to make arrests for, offenses enumerated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2516.
...blah blah blah... in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349"
It doesn't seem like a crime to me. Schools operate any way they want. The school may or may not want to fire somebody, but that's its own business.
Lots of times guilty pleas are to avoid the 75 other charges that they're threatening her with, with a maximum penalty of four consecutive life terms.
Moping with intent to creep being among them.
God already did [forgive her].
That is mighty presumptuous of you. Do you know what is in her heart? Did she sincerely ask God for forgiveness? Is it simply a public relations ploy for a lenient sentence? You don't know the answer to any of those questions.
I know this is hard for you to believe, rhhardin, but fraud is a crime. You could say that the college could work out a financial arrangement to compensate for the fraud, but a homeowner could get compensation from a burglar too.
"That is mighty presumptuous of you."
Well, it would have been, I guess, if I had said it.
The interesting story I read over the weekend was how the Harvard Fencing coach sold his dump of a house to a guy whose son then got accepted into Harvard. And then the guy sold the house for a big loss.
Why doesn't the US Govt Tax College Endowments?
I know you didn't say it, I was simply re-using your altered quote, Mike.
OK.
It's tempting to say that the real victims of this scam were the families and students who played by the rules: but you don't want to fall into that trap, because someone will ask if the same logic applies to immigration -- and we can't have that now, can we?
(1) Tax endowments over $200 million.
(2) Get rid of tax deduction for donations to schools with an endowment over that amount.
I agree with those above who doubt the lack of knowledge on the part of the students, or in some cases, the prospective students. The more likely case is that these "students" were heavily counseled by the sharp lawyers to: "know nothing", "deny any participation" unless they too would be embroiled in criminal charges. After all, students who cheat to get into college are themselves subject to criminal charges.
If much of the value in a degree from a highly selective school lies in signalling that you had what it takes to get admitted, can these schools put an asterisk on your degree if you cheated to get in?
Or might a judge somewhere for some reason decide that asterisks violate something-or-other?
“Ms. Huffman was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but it was unclear how much, if any, time Ms. Huffman would receive. ”
Federal prosecutions seem to rely on vaguely defined crimes with absurdly harsh potential penalties.
"Burn it Down."
The French did that a couple hundred years and change back, then came up with the Grand Ecole system. Worked out pretty good for them, and for the US Polytechnical schools (MIT, Stanford, etc) based on those.
Would that we could be more like those Gddamned French Socialists.
Mike Sylwester
Mail fraud. That was one of the indictments.
Didn't put up much of a fight. The guilt musta been really strong in that one.
The Hollywood people will suffer more severe extra-judicial punishments. This has damaged their reputations. You can rape the odd thirteen year old or intern, but cheating the system to get your kids into college is a career ending scandal.......I'm offended by their transgressions, but, at my level of cynicism, this doesn't rise to outrage. As Hollywood crimes go, this is relatively minor........Ted Kennedy walked away from a similar cheating scandal and became the lion of the Senate. This doesn't have to be the end for the kids involved. Maybe they can go on to drown women and contribute to our public life.
The trend to holding show trials is not good, whether on the right or the left.
rhhardin said... It doesn't seem like a crime to me.
It was a TOTAL CRIME!
Your 'donations' are supposed to be in the Tens of Millions range, and Far move importantly
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE SCHOOL, NOT some peon crew coach.
Nine months probation.
Brava! Brava! Encore.
This will make a great Hallmark movie in a few years and the actresses can play themselves.
All the daughter knew about was her mother's bragging, and that is easily deniable, considering the folks they hang out with, and the way they tend to operate.
But now, she's a complete unknown. No direction home. Like a rollin' stone.
HoodlumDoodlum said: "It's a solid apology; I wonder how much she had to pay for someone to write that for her."
Probably more than she had to pay for her admissions essay.
I think Mike is asking why a federal government with $20 trillion in debt and a lot of problems and serious crimes would waste two minutes on this bullshit.
It’s like when the W administration spent our tax dollars investigation steroid use in baseball. This was after 9/11 and before the financial meltdown. Nothing better to do.
The Justice Department is a jobs program. What an embarrassment. Someone joins the FBI to investigate this bullshit?
The LAPD also has jurisdiction over some of these “crimes” but has better things to do.
Can’t wait for the news conference busting the conspiracy to rip tags off mattresses.
No, No. If you're rich NEVER plead guilty unless you can get a sweet Epstein deal.
Always fight. No matter how guilty and then appeal, appeal, appeal. That's the American way.
As a white, womyn and Dem she fully expects to just do some community service (flower arranging in a library?).
In other old-person entertainment news, John Cleese is currently running the most hilarious parody of a Trump Derangement Syndrome twitter account that anyone could possibly imagine ----- not saying he is back at his Fawlty levels of comedy, but his spot on imitation of a Trump Derangement Victim is really impresssive.
Mccullogh is Missing the Forest while viewing some pretty trees. Steroid Use in MLB and University Corruption are all of Federal Interest, as all (MLB, Major Pharma, Education) receive a crap ton of Federal Dollars.
Whether the kid knew or not, she should be expelled. She is basically in possession of stolen property. If her mom stole a car and gave it to her, she would not get to keep it. Same principle applies.
mccullough said...
I think Mike is asking why a federal government with $20 trillion in debt and a lot of problems and serious crimes would waste two minutes on this bullshit.
It fell in their laps. They busted a stock broker in LA who was running a pump and dump scheme. He was also working with Singer to get his daughter into Yale. He gave up Singer to get a plea deal. Singer rolled over on the others after the FBI came knocking.
It's also got the Feebs a lot of publicity. And they love publicity.
I can't begin to know if Felicity Huffman is sincere; she is an actress (am I allowed to use that word?), after all. At this juncture, I'm not sure I care. Fact is, she was involved in a scheme, a fraud scheme. Everyone deserves a chance at penitence. Doubt, though, that she'll see the inside of a penitentiary.
The federal government gives MLB money? This is advertising dollars from the post office and more military to get the patriotic display to get young men to keep joining the military to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan?
So W’s thinking is that if some 10 year old finds out Barry Bonds did steroids that he’s going to be so fucking heart broken that when he turns 18 he won’t sign up for a stupid fucking war?
It’s a great game but it is a fucking game. Prosecuting Bonds was incredibly stupid. And of course when the case was over, Bonds walked. He’s the all-time MLB walks leader along with the home run record. Of course he was going to be the Department of Justice. They are actually not good at their jobs. Like AA pitching.
As for college, I agree the federal government should get out of the loan and pell grant business. They can give money for research but that’s it.
Get rid of the charitable deduction for colleges as well.
There is no forest. This case was a total waste of fucking money.
Colleges are corrupt. They will continue to be corrupt. The idiot children of the rich will continue to get into them. That’s how W got into Yake. He was a fucking idiot whose dad was somebody.
Bonds dad was somebody as well. But MLB, unlike the Ivy League, is a meritocracy.
So ridiculous.
Just tell the kid she’s got Native Americans in her ancestry and check the race box.
If anyone asks, pay some expert at Stanford to read your DNA results.
There's a lot of scepticism here about Huffman doing time, but according to Instapundit, she's hired a "prison consultant", who will presumably be able to tell her if there's a side door at Camp Fed for an Uber Eats delivery once the taste for humble pie palls.
I suspect all of these felons are Trump haters. MAGA
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