“People assume that I went into this looking for a way to cheat the system, and making proverbial criminal deals in back alleys, but that was not the case,” Huffman told ABC-7.
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure their daughters admission at University of Southern California.
In addition to her two weeks in the Bay Area facility, Huffman will have to pay a $30,000 fine, serve 250 hours of community service and a year's probation.
Prosecutors said Devin Sloane's conduct was worse than "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman's, while he told the judge he grew up in poverty and asked for leniency.
See which actresses are bringing alleged college scammer Lori Loughlin and admitted college scammer Felicity Huffman to the small screen in Lifetime's "The College Admissions Scandal."
"I was frightened. I was stupid, and I was so wrong," actress Felicity Huffman told the court. "Welcome to parenthood," Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen rebutted.
In a letter to the judge, Felicity Huffman wrote about the “utter shame” she feels about her actions, which she says were committed out of fear of being a “bad mother.”
