Actress Felicity Huffman received a 14-day sentence for her role in a cheating scandal in which wealthy individuals paid thousands to help their underachieving kids gain admission to college.
In 2011, a Black woman, Tanya McDowell, enrolled her then five-year-old son Andrew into an elementary school by using a friend’s address. McDowell was homeless at the time and wanted to enroll her son in a school that had a good record for producing high achievers. She was eventually arrested and charged with first-degree larceny and sentenced to five years in prison.
