Prosecutors said Michelle Janavs paid $100,000 to secure high standardized test scores for her daughters and agreed to pay $200,000 to ease a daughter's admission to the University of Southern California.
BOSTON — A California mother was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering to ease her daughters’ admission to college, the latest person to be punished in the sweeping college-admissions scandal.
U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton said he would have given Janavs close to a year in prison but cited her history of good works as a mitigating factor. She has volunteered for decades. Federal prosecutors described Janavs as the heir to a massive fortune and said she paid Singer $100,000 to ensure her two daughters received high scores on ACT exams.Prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memorandum that Janavs agreed to pay $200,000 more to get one of her daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as a purported beach volleyball recruit.
As her attorney began describing her lifetime of commitment to public service, Janavs began to sob quietly. A court clerk handed her a box of tissue, and her eyes were red as she left the hearing.On the way out of the courthouse, Janavs’s attorney, John Littrell, said his client will not allow her life to be defined by this one act. Instead, he said, she will recommit herself to public service.
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