Citing coronavirus, Hot Pockets heir seeks to avoid prison time in admissions scandal
An heir to the Hot Pockets fortune who was sentenced to five months in prison in the college admissions bribery scheme asked a judge Wednesday to allow her to serve her punishment at home because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawyers for Michelle Janavs, who is supposed to report to prison next month, said in a legal filing that she has a health condition that makes her particularly vulnerable if she were to get the virus behind bars. Instead, she should spend five months in home confinement, her attorneys said.
“If Ms. Janavs were to surrender to [Bureau of Prisons] custody, she is highly likely to become infected with COVID-19. And because of her underlying health condition, she faces a much higher risk than others of serious complications, hospitalization, or death from the virus,” her lawyers wrote.
Details about her health condition were blacked out in the filing. Her lawyers noted that Atty. Gen. William Barr has instructed officials to consider moving nonviolent and vulnerable inmates to home confinement to help limit the spread of the virus behind bars.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-23/hot-pockets-heir-seeks-to-avoid-prison-time-citing-virus
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