09-13-2019, 11:51 PM
NewtonMP2100 wrote:
....this is for a $15,000 crime which hurt no one [ really - even though it was questionable morally ] and she is a 1st time offender.....seems on the harsh side to me.....
Committed a felony, bribery and fraud. Faked a learning disability for her daughter to allow her to take an unproctored double-length SAT exam (which pisses me off on principle) in a test-center of her choice -- in this case controlled by her agent -- so that she could have a stand-in take the exam.
Got an unqualified student into a position that could have benefitted someone who earned it.
They're talking about $15,000 but that was the mail-fraud portion that she was tried on. It's not clear how much she paid in total. At least $75,000 was spent arranging the test-center and fake proctor, although multiple parents were in on similar schemes involving the same people so that wouldn't have all come from Huffman. Other parents plead and got on with their lives.
People of privilege are not going to take any lesson at all from this. The wealthy never seem to think in terms of consequences for their actions. But send a few more of them to jail and they might take notice. Maybe let their kids fail down instead of up for a change. Maybe learn something about earning your way in life.