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The one-time Academy Award nominee, 56, turned
herself in to authorities at the Federal Correctional
Institution in Dublin, California, her spokesman said in a
statement.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani had sentenced her to serve
two weeks behind bars after Huffman pleaded guilty to conspiracy
related to her payment of $15,000 to have someone secretly
correct answers on her daughter Sophia's SAT college entrance
test.
"Ms. Huffman is prepared to serve the term of imprisonment Judge
Talwani ordered as one part of the punishment she imposed for
Ms. Huffman's actions," her spokesman said in the statement.
"She will begin serving the remainder of the sentence Judge
Talwani imposed - one year of supervised release, with
conditions including 250 hours of community service - when she
is released."
Huffman, who won an Emmy award for television's "Desperate
Housewives" and was nominated for an Oscar as best actress for
her role in the 2005 film "Transamerica," said her daughter was
unaware of the scheme until the actress was arrested on March
12. In the days after Huffman's arrest, her daughter's top
choice college rescinded her acceptance.
Huffman's husband, actor William H. Macy, was not charged in the
scheme.
Huffman is among 52 people charged with participating in a
wide-ranging scheme in which wealthy parents engaged in a
bribery and fraud scheme with a California college admissions
consultant to get their children into top colleges, including
Yale, Stanford and the University of Southern California.
William "Rick" Singer, the consultant, pleaded guilty in March
to charges stemming from the plot to correct wrong answers on
college entrance exams and bribe university sports coaches to
present his clients’ children as fake athletic recruits.
Some of the parents have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced.
Judge Talwani earlier this month sentenced the founder of a food
and beverage packaging company and his wife, Gregory and Marcia
Abbott, to one month in prison after they admitted to paying
$125,000 in a test-correcting scheme.
Other parents maintain their innocence and will face trial,
including "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin and her husband,
clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli.
No students have been criminally charged.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Bill
Berkrot)
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