Boston, England (AHN) - Felicity Hoffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail and a $ 30,000 fine on Friday for bribes to ensure her daughter was admitted to a university exam.
According to a Justice Department statement, Hoffman, 56, is obliged to come to a federal prison administration by October 25. In addition to imprisonment and a fine, the US actress was sentenced to remain under surveillance after her release for an hour and to work for 250 hours for Community Service.
Since 2017, Hoffman and Rick Singer have agreed on a plan to ensure that her daughter's answers to the university entrance exam - the same year - are correct, the ministry said in August. The order and money you pay, which is about $ 15,000, was handed over by the actress to a charity belonging to the person who helped her daughter.
"I feel shame"
"I feel very shame about what she did, which caused more damage than I imagined," the actress said before the verdict was handed down, adding that her daughter Sophia was unaware of her plan to ensure she passed the entrance exam.
In May, Hoffman pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud.
Other well-known American figures in the fraud scandal to join well-known universities such as Stanford and Georgetown actress Laurie Laughlin and her husband, and fashion designer Massimo Giannoli, the case involved more than nine sports coaches in American universities and 33 mothers and father among the well-known figures in the fields of law, economics, art and fashion and others .
While 15 fathers and mothers have pleaded guilty, 19 others reject the charges, and US authorities say the case is the biggest fraud scandal involving university entrance exams, with defendants paying $ 25 million in bribes.