was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, but everyone thought the sentence was too few! What crime did this famous actress commit?
On September 13, local time, the Boston District Federal Court announced that it had sentenced one of the parents involved in the American college admissions scandal- Hollywood actress Felicity Huffman, who starred in the classic American drama "Desperate Housewives", to imprison 14 days . Huffman must report to the prison on October 25. In addition, Huffman was fined $30,000 and she had to serve the community for 250 hours.
In the largest enrollment fraud case in American history exposed earlier this year, the heroine of the American drama "Desperate Housewives" Felicity Huffman (Felicity Huffman) was charged with fraud for paying $15,000 to illegally improve her daughter's SAT test scores. Ironically, some netizens noticed that in the fifth episode of the first season of "Desperate Housewives", Hoffman played the housewife Lenette Sgavo, in order to allow the twin sons to attend the best local private school Buck Lee school, and her husband Tom used a similar "cunning trick" . In the TV series, the amount of donation that this private school requested from the Lennets also happened to be US$15,000—it is “art comes from life”.
excerpted from "Desperate Housewives" fragment
In order to give his daughter a "fair chance"
"buy points" for her
A week before the trial, Hoffman submitted a letter to the judge stating why he was involved in the fraud . Hoffman said that originally wanted to give his daughter a "fair chance", and now he understands how ironic the original idea was.
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In the beginning, Hoffman used the legal college admissions consultation preparation service of William Singer, the mastermind behind the case. For a year, she used legal means to try to improve her daughter's SAT scores, but it didn't work. Singh reminded her that none of the schools that her daughter was interested in would consider her. So, after struggled for several weeks, she accepted Singer’s proposal to improve her daughter's score through tampering with the invigilator without her daughter's knowledge. Hoffman said that when her daughter learned the truth, she asked her tearfully, why she didn't believe in herself and why she didn't believe that she could improve her score on her own. In the end, Judge Indira Tarwani believed that Hoffman’s actions were not impulsive, she knew it was fraud, and “want to be a good mother is not a reason for fraud”. Hoffman will report to the prison on October 25. And her specific place of sentence will be determined by the Bureau of Prisons, and no news has been announced yet.
Desperate Housewives are really desperate
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