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Trace is correct. the bribe is the same if you bribe someone with 15,000 or $500,000 but the judge has the option to increase the sentence significantly because of the vast difference in the amount of money and the $500,000 instance. shepard: taken in the aggregate here, what is your take on what we re seeing, the way it s playing out, what the future may look like? we have a very aggressive donald trump appointed u.s. attorney who believed he had stumbled on the tip of an iceberg of endemic cheating around the country and he may very well be correct. we have a federal judge who doesn t care for this case and said several times, doesn t the federal government have better things to do and should have been resolved in the civil space and children who lost spaces ....
Probation. that wasn t a lot of money in stake. it was in the world of fraud a small fraud. not to say what she did wasn t morally reprehensible and unlikely to land her in prison. shepard: when i heard the federal government was asking for one month and last time the prosecution asked for 11 months and the defendant got a month. when you ask for a month you have to feel ashamed. what are you take case where you want somebody to go to jail for 30 days. that s a case you see in misdemeanor court. it s not the reason we have the federal government and resources to prosecute people. shepard: there s a bigger picture here. you don t need anybody with money paying off sats and keeping other people out. i don t know how you approach it ....
If not this way. the rich and famous pay to get their kids to college every day. colleges want donors and want rich parents to send their kids to school and get lots of money. it s clear if the huffman spent millions donating to the alumni fund, their daughter probably would have gotten in that way. this is a whole rage of behavior that probably doesn t deserve federal scrutiny. shepard: it s been my experience that no matter what you give if you don t have the math grades at the minimum of an institution, you don t have them. i think it s true and goes back to the real crime. the allegation is the university was defrauded. i think there s ways people defraud universities that don t deserve the fbi to have guns drawn and effectuate an arrest ....
Your, honor and that was that. should she in your estimation come forward and say something now or have another moment of contrition or what would be your advice? i don t think the press conference thing is appropriate at all. it opens up a whole pandora s box. release a statement. do the time. quickly do it and if she chooses she will have an opportunity to be cast in probably some pretty good roles. shepard: we re expecting felicity huffman and others to walk through the doors in a moment. we ll stand by for that. trace galler with information on where she ll be housed. you heard molly line she prefers to be housed in the all-womens facility in northern ....
Month and a half. shepard: the judge said i m imposing a $30,000 fine and one-year probation, 250 hours of community service and 14 days in prison. that s the sentness i think is the sentence is the write sentence and said for her rehabilitation you can move forward without the sentence i think the community around you would ask why you got away with this. judge napolitano thoughts on that? it s a little heavier thane expected but the rationale was right on the mark expresses the community outrage consistent with the sentencing guidelines and bullet-prof on appeal. shepard: i m reading reaction from viewers and others on social media and beyond. it runs the gamut. why would they give her this time when others have gotten probation up to if this had been me or someone i know i d been in ....