Silicon Valley Mom Gets Seven Months for $450,000 College Scam
- Elizabeth Henriquez paid $450,000 to cheat daughters’ way in
- She asked for home confinement for fear of prison contagion
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A Silicon Valley mom who paid $450,000 to cheat her daughters’ way into college was sentenced to seven months in prison after asking a federal judge to spare her a jail term during the pandemic.
Elizabeth Henriquez fits new U.S. Justice Department guidance that nonviolent first-time offenders with health conditions should serve their time at home during the outbreak of the highly contagious coronavirus, her lawyers argued in a hearing by video conference Tuesday. They asked U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton in Boston for five months’ home confinement for their 57-year-old client.