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Hot Pockets Heiress Sentenced to 5 Months in College Admissions Scandal

Michelle Janavs pleaded guilty to paying $300k to get her daughters’ ACT exam answers corrected and to falsely brand her daughter as a volleyball recruit.

Michelle Janavs, a heiress to the Hot Pockets brand of microwavable pizza-like snacks, was sentenced in Boston on Tuesday to five months in prison in the national college admissions scandal after pleading guilty to helping her daughters cheat the application process. She admitted to paying the mastermind and solicitor in the nationwide scheme, Rick Singer, $100,000 to get her daughters’ ACT exam answers corrected, as well as bribing $200,000 to have one of her daughters fraudulently dubbed as a beach volleyball player at the University of Southern California. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton ordered Janavs’ five-month sentence after prosecutors initially requested 21 months, describing her as one of the “most culpable parents” in the scheme. Janavs was ordered to pay a fine of $250,000, complete 200 hours of community service, and she will be supervised upon her release from prison for two years. Nearly two dozen wealthy parents have pleaded guilty in the scandal, however, Full House star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli pleaded not guilty to bribery charges.