JUST IN: Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in college admissions scandal; prosecutors recommend 4 months in prison.
BOSTON — Actress Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty to federal charges on Monday, admitting that she paid a fixer thousands of dollars to boost her daughter's college admission hopes.
The"Desperate Housewives" and Oscar-nominated actress, who is married to fellow actor William H. Macy, agreed to plead guilty last month to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, according to court records.Joining Huffman in pleading guilty in a federal courtroom in Boston on Monday was Los Angeles businessman Devin Sloane, who paid $250,000 for his son to be admitted as a phony water polo recruit at the University of Southern California.
"I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community,""I want to apologize to them and, especially, I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly."
He took thousands of dollars from well-heeled clients to either boost standardized test scores of their teenage children or pass them off as elite athletes, deserving of special — lower — admissions standards.to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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