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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think she should get jail time. I don't see the point of that. Financial restitution and community service. [/quote]

The point is deterrence. This is a high publicity case. What is the message if she does not get any jail time?[/quote]

I think the high publicity aspect always is problematic for justice. I don't think she should receive a harsher sentence because she is famous or has publicity. she should get a similar sentence as someone else with her wealth / attorney skills who committed a fraud type crime in the $15000 range for personal gain (eg. victimless - in that she didn't steal from someone). I am never a fan of using the justice system as a means to make an example of people.

Deterrence is really not effective. The next person will do it differently / think they won't get caught. There were many non celebrities in this group - we hear nothing about them. Most regular folks who aren't celebrities won't take anything from this. Celebrities will continue to find ways to buy their way around a system - they will just pay more to have someone do it better.[/quote]

It’s not a victimless crime though. Through fraud, she stole a spot for her child that should have gone to someone else.[/quote]

And what about Jared Kushner?  Did he also steal a spot that should have gone to someone else?  His father paid $2.5M to Harvard University to allegedly get his son admitted into the university.  His family insists that this donation just before his son was admitted to Harvard was a coincidence.

The fact is that legacy donations that essentially get their lower qualified children accepted to colleges and universities is a fact of life and will not stop.  Yes, the way that Huffman, Macy, and Loughlin did it was shady, but it is still victimless.  There is no guarantee that the spot would have gone to anyone else.  For all you know, if it wasn't their child, then the university would have taken some other legacy with a donation into the school instead and the spot still would not have gone to someone who was on the waiting list.

Make the financial penalty high enough and remove the kid from the admissions spot.  The latter has happened.  The financial penalty is that she has lost her $15K and will pay an additional $20K penalty.  So she has paid $35K and her child is not admitted to college.  And you can bet that wherever she does apply to college will definitely do everything above-board and make no allowances for her in order to avoid ending up in the media.  So essentially she has been barred from legacy and donation appeal admission and will be going to college only where she can actually qualify.  That's a pretty big penalty combination.[/quote]

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