# Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin indicted in Ivy League bribery scheme

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**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-indicted-in-ivy-league-bribery-scheme/831001 "2019-03-12T15:06:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-indicted-in-ivy-league-bribery-scheme/831001/461 "2020-08-21T23:15:07Z")

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Yes, she got off easy–which probably most of here predicted.

Anyone have a guess as to how much time she and her husband will actually serve? Half of their sentences?

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-indicted-in-ivy-league-bribery-scheme/831001/462 "2020-08-21T23:28:37Z")

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The good news is that COVID is rampant in jails and prisons, so they’ve got that to look forward to.

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**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-indicted-in-ivy-league-bribery-scheme/831001/463 "2020-08-22T03:25:01Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> Bump…
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> [Lori Loughlin tearfully admits she made ‘awful decision’ as she’s sentenced to 2 months in prison, husband gets 5 months in prison](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lori-loughlin-sentencing-husband-mossimo-giannulli-gets-5-months-in-prison-as-its-revealed-he-took-infamous-rowing-pictures-160643809.html)
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> _Loughlin wore white for the proceedings and addressed the court, admitting, “I made an awful decision. I went along with a plan to give my daughters an unfair advantage in the college admissions process. In doing so, I ignored my intuition and allowed myself to be swayed from my moral compass.”_

Somehow, I’m not sure exactly why, but I’m not sure that I believe that this was the actual sequence of events. In fact I suspect that her moral compass says “tilt.”

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**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-indicted-in-ivy-league-bribery-scheme/831001/464 "2020-08-22T05:27:59Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> Anyone have a guess as to how much time she and her husband will actually serve? Half of their sentences?

I expect all of it, unless a their attorney convinces the judge that COVID-19 is too much of a risk and so they should be put on house arrest. IMS, there is no parole in the federal system and what little time off one can get for good behavior only comes into effect for sentences greater than (not equal to) one year.

So they should have to do their full terms, barring COVID. Now if they had been convicted in state court, I’d expect half or less.

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