{"id":5336,"date":"2019-09-16T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2019-09-16T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:46:13","slug":"operation-varsity-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/operation-varsity-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Varsity Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t the only one who made out with the law (literally).&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Felicity Huffman&nbsp;<\/strong>had some luck during the sentencing for her part in the&nbsp;<strong><em>Operation Varsity Blues&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>case.&nbsp; You\u2019ll recall that Felicity paid $15K to the&nbsp;<em>Key Worldwide Foundation&nbsp;<\/em>for someone to take the SATs for her daughter.&nbsp; How stupid.&nbsp; Never leave a paper trail; always use cash!&nbsp; You\u2019d think someone who had been on&nbsp;<strong><em>Desperate Housewives<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;would know better.&nbsp; Huffman admitted guilt, appeared remorseful, and threw herself on the mercy of the court.&nbsp; The result?&nbsp; She was sentenced to 14 days in jail, $30K in fines, and 250 hours of community service.&nbsp; I know I\u2019m in the minority here, but why jail time?&nbsp; And I\u2019m not singling Huffman out \u2013 why jail time for anyone?&nbsp; Skip jail (which costs taxpayers) and just increase the fine.<\/p>\n<p>Someone who I\u2019m sure is watching this case very closely is&nbsp;<strong>Lori Loughlin<\/strong>, who paid $500K to get her bratty daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Olivia Jade<\/strong>, into college (where she probably attended classes for less than 14 days).&nbsp; Given that Loughlin is not admitting guilt, is not repentant, and is fighting the charges, her inevitable sentencing should be harsher.&nbsp; On a purely mathematical level, since Huffman got two weeks for $15K, Loughlin would be lucky to get 66 weeks in the pokey!&nbsp; Some are claiming that Lori is a secret genius \u2013 which is the only kinda genius she could be.&nbsp; Between her various motions and demands, heaven knows when her trial will begin.&nbsp; On the other hand, rumor has it that the pending litigation is taking a toll on her marriage.&nbsp; Or, as I like to call it, a win\/win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t the only one who made out with the law (literally).&nbsp;&nbsp;Felicity Huffman&nbsp;had some luck during the sentencing for her part in the&nbsp;Operation Varsity Blues&nbsp;case.&nbsp; You\u2019ll recall that Felicity paid $15K to the&nbsp;Key Worldwide Foundation&nbsp;for someone to take the SATs for her daughter.&nbsp; How stupid.&nbsp; Never leave a paper trail; always use cash!&nbsp; You\u2019d think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}