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[SeaMaiden]

https://www.etonline.com/felicity-huffman-turns-herself-in-to-federal-prison-after-being-sentenced-i...

[Krimpette]

Did she get to go to the facility of her choice, I wonder?

[chrystaltree]

She'll be out for Halloween.  She can dress up as prisoner...LOL

[Tinkrbl44]

How did she commit mail fraud?

[ms traditional]

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@Krimpette wrote:

Did she get to go to the facility of her choice, I wonder?

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yes,Dublin, Ca.   Forbes dubbed it one of the 10 cushiest prisons in the country.  

[Johnnyeager]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

How did she commit mail fraud?

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Technically the charge against Felicity and most of the other parents includes Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

Under the federal statute mail fraud includes the use of private carrier services to deliver documents used in conjunction with the fraudulent scheme  Tests and letters could have been conveyed in this manner not just via the USPS but UPS or FedEx.

"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. "