Lost in the hooplah over actress Felicity Huffman’s 14-day prison sentence for spending $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT score rigged is the doom it spells for the most high-profile defendant in the entire college admissions crackdown, fellow former star of the small screen, Lori Loughlin.
Huffman’s crime of conspiracy to commit mail and honest services mail fraud may have exemplified the excesses of privilege, but just as she was the perfect criminal, documenting and joking about her crimes in multiple electronic communications, she was the perfect poster child for the feds to chastise. Huffman took the first plea deal offered, pleading guilty and issuing a public statement of comprehensive contrition. The feds wanted to make an example of her, and she let them, sending a national signal to any other spoiled millionaires that they, too, would be humiliated and disciplined if met with the full force of the law.
