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Admissions scandal: Judge releases one parent from prison early due to coronavirus

LOS ANGELES - Imprisoned for conspiring to slip their children into the University of Southern California as bogus water polo stars, a Napa Valley vintner and a Los Angeles water systems executive asked a judge last week to release them from custody early, citing the specter of the novel coronavirus.

Agustin Huneeus Jr., whose family owns several wineries in Napa, was discharged March 17, two weeks before his five-month term was up, after U.S. District Judge

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