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DONKEY: Felicity Huffman Accused Of Paying $15K To Falsify Her Daughter’s SAT Scores · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 3: For Monday, December fourth goes the Oscar nominated actress Felicity Huffman. Now,
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  Speaker 3: unless you've been fasting from social media for the last
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  Speaker 3: few years, and you may not know that Felicity Huffins
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  Speaker 3: served some time in prison, had completed court ordered community
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  Speaker 3: service because she broke the law. Okay, she pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen the conspiracy to commit mail fraud and
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  Speaker 3: honest Services mail fraud.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what that is, and she.
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  Speaker 3: Served eleven days of a fourteen day prison sentence and
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  Speaker 3: was ordered to do two hundred and fifty hours of
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  Speaker 3: community service and pay a fine. All because she tried
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  Speaker 3: to take a shortcut. And she quickly learned, like most
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  Speaker 3: of us learn in life, that there are are no shortcuts.
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  Speaker 3: If you take shortcuts, you can get cut short. Can
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  Speaker 3: we flash back to what happened? What caused Felicity to
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  Speaker 3: end up in prison? Let's go to ABC News for
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  Speaker 3: the report.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Actress Felicity Huffman walking out of court today but not
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  Speaker 4: free of prison. The celebrity brushing past cameras with husband
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  Speaker 4: and actor William H. Macy moments after she was sentenced
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  Speaker 4: to fourteen days behind bars in front of the judge.
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  Speaker 4: The prosecutor said most parents have the moral compass and
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  Speaker 4: integrity not to step over the line. The defendant does not.
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  Speaker 4: After noting Huffman's fame and wealth several times, the prosecutor
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  Speaker 4: said emphatically, there's no paparazzi in prison. Prison is the
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  Speaker 4: great equalizer. She must go to prison. After pleading guilty
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  Speaker 4: to fraud charges in May, Huffman admitted to paying fifteen
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  Speaker 4: thousand dollars to have her daughter's SAT scores rigged. The
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  Speaker 4: judge noting she apologized and accepted guilt early, then the
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  Speaker 4: sentence fourteen days in prison, thirty thousand dollars fine, one
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  Speaker 4: year supervised release, and two hundred and fifty hours of
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  Speaker 4: community service.
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  Speaker 3: She paid fifteen thousand dollars to have someone falsified the
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  Speaker 3: results of her daughter's essay T score.
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  Speaker 4: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I wonder about this, and I probably could find the
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  Speaker 3: answer if I can enough to look. Her daughter didn't know, right,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm sure her daughter studied and prepared for the
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  Speaker 3: SAT test. What if her daughter would have passed on
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  Speaker 3: her own merit was the falsifying of the results just
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  Speaker 3: in case she failed. What lack of faith did she
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  Speaker 3: have in her daughter that she already knew. Let me
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and pay for her to pass because I
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  Speaker 3: know she not too bright. Okay, I've been watching her
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  Speaker 3: since she got here. I know she's stupid, all right.
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  Speaker 3: My daughter going to live in the basement for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of her life. If I will do something, she
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  Speaker 3: might have to join the circus or run for Congress,
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  Speaker 3: same difference. Either way, she ends up being a clown
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  Speaker 3: as a child. I would have all these questions for
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  Speaker 3: my mother if she did this to me. I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: you going above and beyond, Mom, you know, actually committing
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  Speaker 3: a crime for me to get ahead, But damn you
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  Speaker 3: don't got no faith in my intelligence in my own
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  Speaker 3: abilities to pass?
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  Speaker 2: Is that they te test now?
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  Speaker 3: Felicity Huffman recently sat what Eyewitness News to speak for
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  Speaker 3: the first time about her participation in this candle and
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  Speaker 3: why she did it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to ABC News for the report. Police.
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  Speaker 5: When he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it
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  Speaker 5: seemed like, and I know this seems crazy at the time,
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  Speaker 5: that that was my only option to give my daughter
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  Speaker 5: a future. And I know hindsight is twenty twenty, but
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  Speaker 5: it felt like I would be a bad mother if
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  Speaker 5: I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: So I did it. Months later, the FBI was at
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  Speaker 2: her door.
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  Speaker 5: They came into my home. They woke my daughters up
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  Speaker 5: at gunpoint, again nothing new to the black and brown community.
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  Speaker 5: Then they put my hands behind my back and hand
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  Speaker 5: We got to me and I asked if I could
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  Speaker 5: get dressed, and I thought.
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  Speaker 2: It was a hoax.
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  Speaker 5: I literally turned to the one of the FBI people
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  Speaker 5: in a flap jacket and a gun, and I went,
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  Speaker 5: is this a Is this a joke?
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  Speaker 3: I felt like this was the only option to give
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  Speaker 3: my daughter a future. Felicity Huffman's net worth is forty
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  Speaker 3: five million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I am an.
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  Speaker 3: Habitual pocket watcher, Okay, I like to know how much
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  Speaker 3: money people are making and I like to know how
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  Speaker 3: they're making it. As soon as I heard her make
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  Speaker 3: these comments about this was the only option to give
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  Speaker 3: my daughter a future, I googled her net worth because
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  Speaker 3: I needed to know why, on God's green earth, which
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  Speaker 3: she feels like her daughter doesn't have a chance at
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  Speaker 3: a future, this young woman of privilege will have every
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  Speaker 3: single advantage that is provided to a multimillionaire's daughter, especially
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  Speaker 3: a multimillionaire who also has the complexion for the protection
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  Speaker 3: and connection.
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  Speaker 2: Now, listen to me.
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  Speaker 3: She is taking penitentiary chances for her daughter because she
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  Speaker 3: says she wants to give her daughter a.
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  Speaker 2: Chance, you know, to have a future.
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  Speaker 3: If an actress worth forty five million dollars is thinking
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  Speaker 3: like that, how the hell do you not understand what
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  Speaker 3: people in the hood are going through. Okay, folks from
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  Speaker 3: poor and disenfranchised communities aren't even attempting to give their
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  Speaker 3: kids a shot at a better future. They just trying
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  Speaker 3: to get their kids an opportunity in the present moment,
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  Speaker 3: and that opportunity is usually just.
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  Speaker 2: The basics, food, clothing, some shelter. Right now.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So when black and brown people are out here
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  Speaker 3: doing what they gotta do to survive. This system should
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  Speaker 3: have some understanding, okay, but they never do. They throw
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  Speaker 3: black and brown people under the jail for much less
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  Speaker 3: fourteen days and a fine.
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  Speaker 2: For mail fraud. Do you know mail fraud.
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  Speaker 3: Carries a sentence of twenty years in prison and you
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  Speaker 3: have to pay a quarter million dollar fine and be
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  Speaker 3: required to make full restitution. Let Felicity Huffman would have
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  Speaker 3: been some sister from a black of brown community. She
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  Speaker 3: would have gotten years years behind bars for doing what
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  Speaker 3: Felicity Huffman did guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how you set your kids up with opportunities
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  Speaker 3: to succeed in the future. How do you set your
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  Speaker 3: kids up with opportunities to succeed in the future by
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  Speaker 3: not letting them skip steps? Now, okay, letting them know
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  Speaker 3: that you cannot escape the process. If your daughter takes
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  Speaker 3: the essays fails, then she just fails study come back
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  Speaker 3: hard the next time.
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  Speaker 2: That is what life is about.
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  Speaker 3: We have to stop coddling these kids, especially in the
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  Speaker 3: world where they go on social media and see everybody's
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  Speaker 3: highlight reel. Nobody on social media is showing you the process.
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  Speaker 3: They not showing you the times they failed, the times
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  Speaker 3: things didn't go their way. I truly believe one of
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  Speaker 3: the worst things about so called cancel culture is that
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  Speaker 3: nobody wants to tell you about their mistakes anymore. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: wants to play perfect and act like they've always gotten
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  Speaker 3: it right. But guess what nobody has. Nobody is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: We all make mistakes. We say wrong things, we do
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  Speaker 3: wrong things. We fall, we get up, we learn, we grow,
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  Speaker 3: we move on, we live, and we thank God for
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  Speaker 3: always giving us another chance. If we don't allow our
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  Speaker 3: kids to fail and learn how to deal with failing,
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  Speaker 3: then we are truly hindering their chances of being successful
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  Speaker 3: in the future. Felicity, right now you have an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to teach your kid a tremendous lesson about failure because
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  Speaker 3: you failed. But you can't let that failure define you.
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  Speaker 3: You have to let it shape you. And right now
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  Speaker 3: your daughter is watching you. The way you handle it
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  Speaker 3: is how she is going to learn how to handle
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  Speaker 3: failure in the future. And when it comes to stuff
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  Speaker 3: like failing a test, please, it's just a test.
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  Speaker 2: You fail, you take it over.
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  Speaker 3: Maya Angelou said it best, courage allows a successful woman
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  Speaker 3: to fail and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so
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  Speaker 3: that in the end she didn't fail at all. Our
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  Speaker 3: greatest glory in life, kids, is not in never failing,
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  Speaker 3: but in rising every time we fail. Please let Chelsea
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  Speaker 3: handle give Felicity Huffman the biggest hee haw hee haw
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  Speaker 3: hee haw.
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  Speaker 2: That is way too much. Dan Maynes, all right, not.
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  Speaker 3: Any stories we've heard of, you know a sisters putting
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  Speaker 3: their kids in different area codes, are lying about where
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  Speaker 3: they live so their kids can go to better schools,
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  Speaker 3: and then getting actual prison sentences. How can we not
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  Speaker 3: understand what they were trying to do for their children
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  Speaker 3: With Felicity Hufman get a slap on the wrist for
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  Speaker 3: something that has a twenty year sentence, you know why?
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  Speaker 2: Too much caught them?
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