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    Felicity Huffman leaves prison after completing sentence for college admissions scandal

    Suzy Byrne
    Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
    Yahoo CelebrityOctober 25, 2019
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    Felicity Huffman has completed her prison sentence, Yahoo Entertainment can confirm.

    The Desperate Housewives star — aka prisoner number 77806-112 — left the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., on Friday after serving 11 days for her role in the college admissions scandal. She was released two days early, but that is typical. If an inmates’s release date falls on a weekend or a legal holiday, the Bureau of Prisons sometimes opts to release them the last preceding weekday.

    Actress Felicity Huffman is escorted by Police into court where she is expected to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud before Judge Talwani at John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, May 13, 2019. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images)
    Felicity Huffman, going to court in May, has completed her prison sentence. (Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images)

    A rep for Huffman has not issued a statement about her release.

    In May, the Emmy-winning actress pleaded guilty to paying admissions consultant Rick Singer $15,000 to have a test proctor boost her daughter Sophia’s SAT score. In September, Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison, plus a $30,000 fine, one year of supervised release and 250 hours of community service.

    Felicity Huffman — federal prison inmate 77806-112 — was expected to be released on Oct. 27. (Screenshot: Federal Bureau of Prisons)
    Felicity Huffman — federal prison inmate 77806-112 — was expected to be released on Oct. 27. (Screenshot: Federal Bureau of Prisons)

    While she was in prison — a low-security facility outside of San Francisco, about five hours north of the L.A. home she shares with William H. Macy and their two daughters — prosecutors told the court that Huffman had paid the $30,000 fine “in full.”

    In a statement after her sentencing, Huffman said she accepted the punishment “without reservation,” adding, “my goal now is to serve the sentence that the court has given me.” She also said she hoped that her family, friends and community would “forgive me for my actions.”

    Felicity Huffman's official statement after being sentenced to 14 days in prison for the college admissions scheme. @YahooEnt pic.twitter.com/IyXFR3opAV

    — Suzy Byrne (@SuzyByrne) September 13, 2019

    Huffman’s daughter Sophia — who was unaware her mom paid to change her test score, prosecutors said — is taking a gap year after graduating high school last spring amid the scandal. Macy said in a letter to Judge Indira Talwani that the now 19-year-old’s unnamed dream college rescinded its invitation to audition for its theater program, after she had traveled to the school, in the wake of Huffman’s arrest.

    The couple’s younger daughter, Georgia, 17, will graduate from high school next spring. Prosecutors said Huffman considered running the same scheme to improve her SAT test scores as well but later changed her mind.

    Huffman was among the first and the most well-known person to be sentenced in the scandal, dubbed Operation Varsity Blues by federal prosecutors. More than 50 people — parents, coaches, test proctors and admissions counselors — have faced charges for the scheme which involved test scores being changed and bribes paid to guarantee college admission to children of the wealthy.

    Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were also arrested, for allegedly paying $500,000 to get their daughters, Bella Giannulli and Olivia Jade, into the University of Southern California. They pleaded not guilty and are expected to go to trial, accumulating two additional charges along the way.

    Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:

    • 'What about William H. Macy?' People wonder why the 'Shameless' star is 'skating' as Felicity Huffman pleads guilty

    • Felicity Huffman's sentencing has social media buzzing about Lori Loughlin's fate

    • Who are Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin's children? Actresses accused of fraud in scheme to get daughters into elite colleges

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