Can Felicity Huffman Escape College Admissions Scandal Unscathed?

Felicity Huffman just might escape from the college admissions scandal she is embroiled in unscathed. If she does, the same might happen to co-accused, Lori Laughlin.

According to TMZ, the Probation Department’s sentencing report revealed that the Department thinks Huffman deserves to be free of any imprisonment. Allegedly, the Department thinks there really is no victim in the said scandal and therefore, Huffman does not deserve to be jailed. This, in spite of the fact that Huffman herself already admitted to paying someone to rig the SAT Test.

The department, however, is focused only on whether money is lost as a result of Huffman’s actions and concluded that no one did. The department did not consider the claims of prosecutors that her actions led to other forms of loss such as emotional distress, reputation harm, loss of opportunity for more deserving students, and many more others.

“There was no actual or intended loss,” the report read. The Probation Department does not think that the displacement of another more deserving applicant was an intended loss so Huffman should not be punished.

On her part, Huffman not only defended her actions by stating she is just a mother who wants to see her daughter with learning disability a fighting chance at the renowned university, but she also said she is not the big fish in this scheme and therefore should not be treated as one.

She is claiming that she was merely Rick Singer’s customer and not the mastermind of this controversial scheme. Lori Laughlin is expected to say the same and be let off her possible punishment by this current Probation Department's sentencing report.

Before this sentencing report was released, the federal prosecutors have been adamant that Huffman experience jail time. They recommended one month of jail time as opposed to the initially sought term of at least four months in prison.

According to them, Huffman’s actions should be punished. Her efforts weren’t driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity,” the prosecution wrote. “Millions of parents send their kids to college every year. All of them care as much as she does about their children’s fortunes. But they don’t buy fake SAT scores and joke about it… along the way.”

It remains to be seen if Huffman will really be let off without any consequence, not even a month of jail time.