Article 6GTGR Felicity Huffman says she broke the law to give her child ‘a chance at a future’

Felicity Huffman says she broke the law to give her child ‘a chance at a future’

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Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Actor paid $15,000 for an exam proctor to change her daughter's answers on the SAT and spent 11 days in prison in 2019

The actor Felicity Huffman says she paid to have her daughter's college testing scores raised - breaking federal law and getting imprisoned over it - because she felt pressed to give her child a chance at a future".

Huffman, an Emmy winner who starred in the TV series Desperate Housewives, expressed that sentiment in an interview published Thursday by the Los Angeles news station KABC. The interview marked the first time Huffman discussed her role in the 2019 scandal that ensnared dozens of prominent, well-connected parents across the US accused of illicitly plotting to get their children into college.

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