California Mom Gets Six Weeks in Jail in College Admissions Scam

Elisabeth Kimmel arrives at federal court in Boston on March 29, 2019.Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
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Media executive Elisabeth Kimmel was sentenced to six weeks in jail and a $250,000 fine in the U.S. college admissions scandal, and another parent agreed to plead guilty, as the massive case winds down.

Kimmel, of La Jolla, California, was sentenced in federal court in Boston on Thursday, the same day warehouse and shipping executive I-Hsin “Joey” Chen agreed to change his plea rather than face trial, almost three years after the sprawling prosecution was announced.