sentence structure?!.....Felicity Huffman sentence just announced.....

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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.....

IMHO, the crime did indeed hurt others in the student acceptance process by gaming the process and making the rich vs. poor divide even worse. (*)

Harsh , perhaps, but it's a warning...

Pour Encouragez Les Autres... (Voltaire, in reference to the execution of an English Admiral for losing a battle with the French)
https://wordhistories.net/2016/10/22/pou...es-autres/

(*) Did nothing to remove the long standing tradition of donations/endowments directly to universities with a wink wink nudge nudge to get undeserving offspring into the institution. A few US Presidents in the 21st century seem to have benefited from that ancient process.

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https://www.salon.com/2019/09/10/felicit...ic-racism/

[RAMd®d]

Another slap on the wrist for a wealthy defendant.

And I'm ok with it.

All she did was get a discount for cutting out the middle man, her being a hardened criminal notwithstanding.

She wasn't happy, the community wasn't happy, nobody was happy she did this, and neither was her daughter.

Yes, that was indeed a firm slap for her crime.

She deserved it and she knows it.

Now about those to took the bribe...

[SteveG]

Oooh, Celebrities!!

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From the Salon article linked above.

“Back in 2011 Tanya McDowell was homeless and living in her van. She wanted her five-year-old son to receive a quality education, so she enrolled him in Brookside Elementary of the Norwalk School District. He was later kicked out due to a residency issue, so he transferred to Bridgeport schools.

Police investigated McDowell and charged her with fraud. A year later she pleaded guilty to first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny; for these offenses, she received a five-year sentence.”

But 14 days is “harsh” in the Huffman case...

$30,000 fine. A ‘firm’ slap on the wrist.

She’s worth $20 million and her husband is worth $45 million.

[Racer X]

Some people own up, and others hide behind lawyers. I have nothing against lawyers, just those that hide poor and illegal behavior for others.

[jdc]

Blankity Blank wrote:
From the Salon article linked above.

But 14 days is “harsh” in the Huffman case...
$30,000 fine. A ‘firm’ slap on the wrist.
She’s worth $20 million and her husband is worth $45 million.

I see what you are saying, but its opposite -- like the article sort of mentioned -- the homeless woman was treated waaaaaaaaaaaay too
harshly. Which was sort of the point of the article. Money trumps all. It tried to throw "racism" in there too, which was certinaly a factor... but not as much as the money... ala Donte Stallworth...

[PeterW]

The homeless woman was also sentenced to those same five years for selling crack cocaine to an undercover cop during her kid’s birthday party so don’t shed too many tears for her.

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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.

[testcase]

Lori Loughlin must be sh!tting her pants about now........