Martha Stewart on Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman: 'I just feel sorry for them'
Martha Stewart knows better than most what actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, the two biggest names caught up in the college admissions scandal, are going through right now.
After all, the food and decorating guru famously served a five-month sentence in 2004 for lying to federal investigators about a stock sale. She was released from Federal Prison Camp Alderson in West Virginia in March of the following year.
"I just feel sorry for them," Stewart, 77, told "Entertainment Tonight" at the Time 100 Gala Tuesday. "They might have made a bad mistake."
Huffman pleaded guilty to mail fraud and honest services fraud earlier this month, telling USA TODAY in a statement that she felt "deep regret and shame" for having paid $15,000 so that her elder daughter could take the SAT over two days and then have her answers corrected by an exam proctor. In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to seek a reduced prison sentence of approximately four to 10 months.
After turning down a similar plea deal, Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli were charged the following day with an additional count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Shortly afterward, they announced they would fight the charges and entered a plea of not guilty.
The couple are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to coaches so their non-athlete daughters could be designated crew recruits, easing their admission to the University of Southern California.
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