BOSTON (AP) — “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman will plead guilty on May 13 to charges that she took part in a sweeping college admissions cheating scam.
Huffman had been scheduled to enter her plea in Boston federal court on May 21. A judge on Monday agreed to move up the hearing because the lead prosecutor will be out of town.
The actress agreed earlier this month to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Authorities say she paid $15,000 to have someone correct the answers on her daughter’s SAT.
Huffman was charged in March along with dozens of other prominent parents and coaches at elite universities. Prosecutors say other parents paid an admissions consultant to bribe coaches to get their children admitted as fake athletic recruits.
Among those indicted was John Wilson of Hyannis Port, who served as president of Hyannis Port Capital.
Gordon Ernst, the former executive director of Vineyard Tennis on Martha’s Vineyard, who owns a house in Falmouth was also implicated.
A third person with Cape Cod ties, John Vandemoer, the former Stanford University sailing coach, has connections to Cape Cod Academy in Osterville.
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