Huffman to Plead Guilty in College Admissions Scandal

According to prosecutors, Huffman paid William Singer, the college consultant at the center of the case, $15,000 to cheat on her older daughter’s SAT.

“My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her,” Huffman said in a statement.

A total of 33 parents were charged as part of the investigation.

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were also charged in the case and have not yet indicated whether they will plead guilty or fight the charges. The government has said the couple conspired with Singer to pay $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters admitted to the University of Southern California.

It was not clear what effect Huffman’s acknowledgment of guilt would have on her career. She has roles in several coming movies and television series, including playing prosecutor Linda Fairstein in the miniseries “When They See Us” about the so-called Central Park Five.

Huffman was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but it was unclear how much, if any, time Huffman would receive. Sentences in the college admissions case may be affected in part by how much money each parent is alleged to have paid as part of the scheme. Huffman’s payment of $15,000 was among the smallest, according to court documents.

The Justice Department charged 50 people in the case Prosecutors have said Singer bribed the test administrators to allow cheating on the college entrance exams and bribed the coaches to designate his clients’ children as recruits to teams for which they were not actually qualified.

According to the criminal complaint against Huffman, her husband, William H. Macy, was also involved in the $15,000 payment to Singer. For reasons that are unclear, Macy was not charged.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.