Felicity Huffman could be sentenced and out of jail before many of the other parents in the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal begin their trials.
A court filing submitted the the US District Court for the State of Massachusetts in Boston on Thursday states that Huffman will now be appearing on May 13 and not May 21 as previously scheduled at the request of the prosecution.
Eric Rosen with the US Attorney's office informed Judge Indira Talwani in the filing that he will be unable to appear that day because of a trip that will take him out of the country.
'The Government has conferred with defense counsel for Defendant, who has graciously consented to this request,' explained Rosen in the court filing, which was obtained by DailyMail.com.
The Boston Globe was the first to report the story.
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Desperate: Felicity Huffman, 56, will appear in court eight days earlier than expected, with her formal indictment now scheduled for May 13 (Huffman above with her lawyer on April 3 in Boston)
Family affair: Huffman is expected to enter a plea of guilty at her formal indictment to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud ( l to r: Sofia, Georgia, William and Felicity Huffman)
Huffman, 56, is expected to waive her indictment during that appearance and enter a plea of guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
That carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, but based on the scale of the crime, Huffman will instead be looking at four to ten months behind bars.
The US Attorney's office previously stated it would recommend a sentence on the lower end of those guidelines.
This means that Huffman could put this entire experience behind her by the end of the year.
Lori Loughlin on the other hand might be in the pre-trial phase for over a year, with the Full House actress fighting back hard against the claims and entering a not guilty plea.
Multiple sources told DailyMail.com that one of the actress’ daughters received a target letter from federal prosecutors earlier this month regarding the Operation Varsity Blues probe.
That letter informed the embattled University of Southern California student that she was the subject of an investigation which could result in criminal charges.
No students have been charged or arrested at this point in the investigation, but court documents make it clear that some of the youngsters were aware of the illegal actions being carried out in their behalf.
Loughlin and her husband are facing jail time because they opted to use the athletics route to gain their daughters admittance into University of Southern California.
This required daughters Isabella and Olivia, who had never before rowed in their lives, to pretend they were on crew teams.
In order to sell that, they posed for photos on ergometers, suggesting that they were both aware and willing participants in their parents' plan.
Furthermore, Olivia knowingly had
