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>> Mike: FROM
"DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES" TO THE
BIG HOUSE, ACTRESS FELICITY
HUFFMAN SENTENCED TO JAIL TIME
FOR HER PART BUYING HER
CHILDREN'S WAY INTO PRESTIGIOUS
COLLEGES.
THEY HAVE MORE FROM BOSTON.
MOLLY.
>> HI, MIKE.
NOW SENTENCED TO TWO WEEKS BY A
JUDGE IN BOSTON.
AT ONE OF MOST RECOGNIZABLE
FACES IN THE COLLEGE ADMISSION
SCANDAL BECAME THE FIRST PARENT
TO FACE JUSTICE IN THE CASE.
IN COURT, SHE SOBBED AND
APOLOGIZED TO THE STUDENTS,
PARENTS, AND COLLEGES IMPACTED.
IF SHE DID NOT SPEAK TO THE
THRONG OF MEDIA WAITING OUTSIDE
BUT DID RELEASE A STATEMENT
PROMISING, "I WILL TRY TO LIVE A
HONEST AND MORE OPEN LIFE."
SHE PLED GUILTY TO WINK AT
SPERRY ON FRAUD ACCOUNTS IN
MAINE.
ADMITTING SHE PAID A $15,000 TO
A PHONY SCHEME OF THE
MASTERMIND.
WHO CORRECTED HER DAUGHTER'S
S.A.T. EXAM.
PROSECUTORS CALLED FOR ONE MONTH
IN PRISON AND SHOWED LITTLE
SYMPATHY IN COURT OR HER CLAIMS
OF PARENTING CHALLENGES.
SAYING, MOST PARENTS HAVE A
MORAL COMPASS DO NOT STEP UP THE
LINE IN THE DEFENDED DEAD END.
HUFFMAN'S LAWYERS ARGUED MORE
PROBATION AND THE ULTIMATELY
DETERMINED PRISON TIME WAS
WARRANTED.
SAYING IN ESSENCE, SHE KNEW WHAT
WHEN SHE WAS DOING WAS WRONG AND
THAT WAS A FRAUD.
IT WAS NOT AN IMPULSIVE ACT OF
TRYING TO BE A GOOD MOTHER DOES
NOT ASK USELESS."
ALSO ENTERED GUILTY PLEAS,
BIBLICAL PEACE
BEFORE THE SAME JUDGE, IT'S A
BENCHMARK THEY CAN GO LOOK
THROUGH.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO THE PARENTS
MOVING FORWARD TO TRIAL,
INCLUDING LORI KAUFMAN.
DETERMINED BY THE BUREAU OF
PRISONS ON OCTOBER 25TH.
MIKE.
>> Mike: MOLLY, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
ALL EYES ARE NOW ON "FULL HOUSE"
START LORI LOUGHMAN AND PLEADED
NOT GUILTY FOR HER ROLE IN THE
COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL AND
IS NOW FACING UP TO 40 YEARS IN
PRISON.
THEY ARE HERE TO WEIGH IN,
ROBERT PATILLO AND DEFENSE
ATTORNEY KATIE CHERKASKY.
FELICITY HUFFMAN GETS 14 DAYS IN
PRISON, A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME,
BUT IT STILL PRISON.
WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?
WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS?
>> SURE, QUITE WRINKLY, IT
DOESN'T MATTER IF SHE GOT A DAY
IN JAIL OR A YEAR.
BECAUSE HER REPUTATION IS
COMPLETELY RUINED FOR EVERMORE
AND IT'LL APPLY FOR TWO LORI
LOUGHMAN AS WELL.
AS FAR AS WHAT SENTENCE WILL
LOOK LIKE, PEOPLE ARE PRETTY
MUCH JUMPING THE GUN BECAUSE SHE
MAY NOT BE CONVICTED AND THERE
ARE GOOD REASONS FOR THAT UNDER
THE PRECOURT CASE LAWS.
GETTING INTO FOR A LONG TIME.
ASSUMING THAT SHE IS FOUND
GUILTY, I DO NOT THINK THAT HER
CASE IS NECESSARILY VERY
COMPARABLE.
THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN FACTS, THERE'S A
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MONEY
EXCHANGE AND QUITE WRINKLY
, FRANKLY, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S
LORI LOUGHMAN CAN POINT TO.
>> Mike: 'S AUNT BECKY HER
CHARACTER FACING SERIOUS PRISON
TIME?
>> IF YOU LOOK AT THE CITY
HUFFMAN CASE, MOST PEOPLE THINKS
IT'S A SLAP ON THE WRIST,
SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN
PRISON, NOT FOR BRIBING BUT FOR
SIMPLY ROLLING HER CHILD IN THE
WRONG SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WHO VOTED WHEN SHE DATED DON
MONK DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS
ALLOWED TO VOTE IN TEXAS WHO WAS
ALSO SENTENCED FIVE YEARS.
THE IDEA 14 14 DAYS IN PRISON
THE IDEA 14 14 DAYS IN PRISOW
THE IDEA 14 14 DAYS IN PRISOI
THE IDEA 14 14 DAYS IN PRISOH
WILL MOSTLY BE LIKE CLUB FED,
SHE'S NOT SERVING A HARD 14
DAYS, IT'S TURNING TO LORI
LOUGHLIN'S CASE, I DO THINK
SHE'S GOING TO USE AUNT BECKY AS
BEING PART OF HER DEFENSE.
BEING THE CHARACTER, BEING A
LOVING FAMILY WOMAN AS OPPOSED
TO A COLD FACTS WHICH SHE SPENT
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO BRIBE
HER CHILDREN INTO SCHOOL.
WE HAVE TO STOP GIVING THESE
CRIMINALS SO MUCH COVER.
STOP LETTING THEM CRY IN FRONT
OF THE COURT IN ORDER TO GET
SOMEBODY.
TREAT THEM AS A CRITICAL C
TREAT THEM AS A CRITICAL I
TREAT THEM AS A CRITICAL A
TREAT THEM AS A CRITICAL L
MASTERMINDS.
>> Mike: THE JUDGE AND
FELICITY HUFFMAN'S CASE SAID "I
THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT SENTENCE
HERE.
IF YOU CAN MOVE FORWARD AND
REBUILD YOUR LIFE AFTER THIS.
WITHOUT THE SENTENCE, I THINK
THE COMMUNITY AROUND YOU WOULD
ASK WHY YOU GOT AWAY WITH THIS.
DO YOU AGREE, KATIE?
"I THINK THE SENTENCE WAS PRETTY
MUCH WHAT WE EXPECTED.
PROSECUTED ONLY LOOKING FOR ONE
MONTH IN JAIL, SHE PLED GUILTY
AND GAVE HER A GREAT BENEFIT TO
BEGIN WITH.
THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE THAT SHE
WAS FACING, IT WASN'T THAT GREAT
FOR WHAT SHE DID.
I THINK IT WAS REASONABLE, OF
COURSE, PEOPLE WANT TO SEE A
POUND OF FLESH FOR WHAT YOU DO,
IT'S VERY ENTITLED AND
DISHONEST.
THAT IS NOT OUTSIDE THE NORM.
IT'S VERY REASONABLE.
>> Mike: LET ME PLAY FOR YOU,
WHAT MEGHAN McCAIN SAID TODAY
ABOUT THIS CASE.
I'LL ASK YOU TO RESPOND.
>> I HAVE A LOT OF THEORIES
ABOUT HER BECOMING A MOTHER.
I DON'T THINK THAT MAKES YOU
BRIBE SOMEONE TO BREAK THE LAW.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE LOGICAL
CONNECTION, THE POSTER CHILDREN
OF WHAT EVERYONE HATES ABOUT
WHITE PRIVILEGE AND SHE DESERVES
TO GO TO JAIL.
WE WANT YOUR REACTION?
>> I THINK SHE'S COMPLETELY
CORRECT ON THAT.
WHEN MOST PEOPLE LOOK -- ECHOES
TO THIS IDEA THIS IS THE
AMERICAN, THIS IDEA THEY CAN GO
TO GO WORK HARD,
YOUR NOSE CLEAN.
IT'S HAVING RICH PARENTS WHO CAN
BUY YOUR WAY INTO COLLEGE TO BUY
YOUR WAY INTO THE INTEGER, VALUE
BY
YOUR WAY INTO THE JOB YOU NEED.
IT SHOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE
MINIMUM, IF NOT LONGER, BECAUSE
IT CUTS AT THE VERY SOUL OF THE
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND
THE CONCEPT THAT SERVING PEOPLE
GET TREATED DIFFERENTLY.