Pleading GUILTY to BRIBERY charges, this actress' film gets BUMPED

Felicity Huffman recently admitted her involvement in the college admissions bribery scandal...

Published: 星期三,4月 10, 2019 12:01 下午 GMT-06:00

Kunal Nirmal Kothari

The saga related to college admissions bribery scandal has only been intensified with time passing by and how it has had several celebrities come in question.

One of the first ones in that list was actress Felicity Huffman. According to a report in Hollywood Reporter, Huffman was one of 50 people indicted for allegedly paying bribes to college admissions officials and athletic coaches to ensure their admission. The charges that came down March 12 also implicated actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, and film financier Bill McGlashan.

The investigation, which the FBI dubbed Operation Varsity Blues, centers on William "Rick" Singer, the head of a college prep business. According to authorities, Singer (who has pleaded guilty in the case) facilitated bribes paid to coaches at Yale, the University of Southern California and Stanford, among other colleges, to have students falsely admitted as athletic recruits. Singer also arranged to have other people take the SAT or ACT exams for clients' children.

Huffman said Monday she would plead guilty to disguising a $15,000 payment to have someone take the SAT for her oldest daughter as a charitable donation. "I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions," the actress said in a statement.

And coming to the movie Otherhood starring Huffman along with Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette has been bumped from Netflix's schedule of release for now. The movie was supposed to debut on April 26 but for now it has been put on hold.