Should do just fine in prison, she looks like she's cut out for it. Prisons are overcrowded though, it's going to be a Full House.
Should do just fine in prison, she looks like she's cut out for it. Prisons are overcrowded though, it's going to be a Full House.
Cant she just buy her way into a better Prison?
In reply to John Welsh :
The rich always do.
She already has a new show in the works...
Sometimes it really hurts to get confirmation that the world does, indeed, work the way I suspect it does.
There's sime form of common knowledge/news story/stupidity im missing here. The actress looks familiar.....
Dusterbd13-michael said:There's sime form of common knowledge/news story/stupidity im missing here. The actress looks familiar.....
She was arrested for paying to illegally help her child to get into college.
Also, she was on the show "Full House."
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
She was in the old TV show Full House. I never watched the show, so all of this is a bit lost on me too.
In reply to jharry3 :
Flounder much?
dculberson said:In reply to jharry3 :
Flounder much?
No kidding.
The thing that amazes me in this is that she could have done it the old fashioned way--donate $500k to the damn school, buy them a new computer lab or AC system for the dorms, and (a) students actually benefit, and (b) admissions gets a memo from the President saying "hey, look at this donation from the parents of these applicants". Nobody says a damn thing.
bowling green massacre... Never forget...
I dunno. Seems like kind of a BS thing to serve hard time for.
poopshovel again said:I dunno. Seems like kind of a BS thing to serve hard time for.
I thought the same thing. I'd rather see them pay a LARGE fine that went towards scholarships for underprivileged students. Of course that may be difficult since in Aunt Becky's case the Hallmark movie gravytrain just stopped.
In reply to slefain :
She's married to the guy that started Mossimo clothing company. Estimates put their net worth around 90 mil. I doubt the hallmark gravy train is a (relatively) huge deal.
That really makes the whole thing even more odd to me. Your kids are already set for life, you can afford a massive donation to the school if you really have buy your kids' way in there for your own bragging rights. And her kids won't even benefit from the ridiculous investment of this money as much as if they'd just put that bribery cash into a trust.
IBTL
It's a shame she wasn't charged in Chicago...
Wow, this is going to bad quickly...
...anyway, thought I would make the quick note that the crime she is being busted for is more about fake charities, money laundering and tax fraud (how they paid for it). Just giving huge amounts of money to a college, or even to someone to get you into a college is unlikely to break any laws (it will likely get someone fired, unless you pay for a building or something).
With enough money, and smart expensive lawyers, it's generally not hard at all to generate some amount of reasonable doubt (plenty of examples of this), even in the most extreme of cases.
aircooled said:Wow, this is going to bad quickly...
...anyway, thought I would make the quick note that the crime she is being busted for is more about fake charities, money laundering and tax fraud (how they paid for it). Just giving huge amounts of money to a college, or even to someone to get you into a college is unlikely to break any laws (it will likely get someone fired, unless you pay for a building or something).
With enough money, and smart expensive lawyers, it's generally not hard at all to generate some amount of reasonable doubt (plenty of examples of this), even in the most extreme of cases.
Thanks. I was about to say the same thing. Felony money laundering, felony tax fraud, felony mail fraud and perhaps wire fraud, etc.
Felicity Huffman already took a plea deal to get over with, although she wasn't indicted for nearly as much. I think just felony mail fraud.
The thing that really confuses me is paying that kind of money to get into USC. Like, was it just a "want to keep the kids close to him but still go to a decent school" thing? Because it's not that academically amazing of a university. Top 50 is nothing to sniff at, but it's not exactly MIT. Athletics are big there, but these kids weren't athletes. Is it really that prestigious?
In reply to jharry3 :
You have an e-mail.
Everyone else: keep it civil please.
Cooter said:It's a shame she wasn't charged in Chicago...
People make mistakes and crap happens. I just hope they don't beat themselves up over it.
Poor taste maybe but I read that on CL JoFo the other day and laughed quite a lot. I'll delete if anyone is offended.
LMAO classic
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