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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prosecutors recommend one month in jail, a year of probation, and a $20,000 fine. (For a $15,000 SAT scam).

Huffman's lawyers want no jail time, $20,000 fine, and some probation.

What do you she'll get? I'm thinking 5 days in jail with it really being 2 days and the full fine.[/quote]

So penalty seems appropriate 
2 weeks jail, long probation, many hours of community service and hefty fine.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/felicity-huffman-sentencing-college-scandal/index.html

However, why is all the blame laid at the mothers’ feet? [b]Why are no fathers and men who profit from these pervasive elite college edge scams facing public condemnation?[/b]

In stead of demonizing a few misguided mothers who misused their privileges to give their children advantages in a crazy system, why are we not discussing the insane pressures faced by many young people to be even able to compete for spots in  top colleges? That students feel compelled to take over a dozen college level courses in high school? The slave labor internships that many need to get an edge for entry level positions? The trillion dollar student debt industry? That Betsy De Vos just made it even harder for defrauded students swindled by sub standard places  such as Trump University to get refunded tuition dollars? That higher education is unaffordable for so many, and it is so hard for first generation college students to fit in to preppy college scenes? [/quote]

If the husbands were involved in the fraud, I would think that prosecutors would have gone after them too.  If you look at the list of people charged, there were plenty that were men: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/03/12/college-admissions-scam-lori-loughlin-and-list-who-involved/3145854002/
I didn't count, but it seems to me that there were more men in the list than women.

I am guessing people are talking about Felcity Huffman here as opposed to other people because she is one of the first celebrities sentenced.

As for the rest of your questions - I don't disagree with a lot of your questions, but realize that there is a trillion dollar student debt industry because the government (via taxpaper money) keeps subsiding college education.  If you had 100 widgets to sell, and widget buyers keep getting more and more money or low cost loans from the government to buy the same 100 widgets, wouldn't you charge more money?[/quote]

I agree government should stop subsidizing private for profit colleges and maybe even non profit colleges. However public universities remain bastions if research much needed for serving the public good and public universities also enroll far greater numbers of first generation students, military vets and minorities - all of which is needed to Combat inter generational cycles of poverty. [/quote]

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