Lori Loughlin’s life is about to change. De As the heart cries out actor is scheduled to be convicted on August 21 after pleading guilty in the admission college scandal. Their punishment will likely include jail time, plus a six-figure fine and community service.
Lori Loughlin could spend 2 months in jail
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In May 2020, Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli pleaded guilty to shipping costs. Prosecutors allege that the couple paid $ 500,000 in bribes to ensure their two daughters were admitted to the University of Southern California as crew recruits.
Loughlin and Giannulli maintained their innocence for more than a year after arresting in March 2019 until they finally reached an agreement with prosecutors. Under the terms of the Full house star’s plea agreement, she will spend 2 months in jail, pay a $ 150,000 fine, complete 100 hours of community service and has two years released under supervision. Giannulli will spend 5 months in prison, pay a $ 250,000 fine, complete 250 hours of community service, and have been released for 2 years.
Prosecutors said Loughlin’s crime was ‘serious’
Attorneys for the government are prosecuting the judge in the case to follow the plea deal and sentence Loughlin and Giannulli to 2 and 5 months, respectively.
“The crime Giannulli and Loughlin committed was serious,” she wrote in a sentencing memo, CNN reported. ‘Over the course of two years, they participated twice [scam creator Rick] Singers fraudulent scheme. ”
According to prosecutors, Giannulli took an active role in the college admission scheme. Loughlin, however, was an accomplice to the crime.
Loughlin coached her daughter on how to talk to her high school counselor
The sentencing memo also includes new details about what Loughlin and Giannulli’s daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, knew about the scheme.
“They both involved their daughters in the fraud, allowing them to set up positional photos for use in fake athletic profiles and instructing one daughter how to hide the schedule from her high school counselor,” the memo says. .
When younger daughter Olivia Jade asked her parents if she would recommend her to USC High School, she said no. 1 choose college, her parents advise her to be careful.
“Yes … But it could be a flag for the weasel to mediate,” Loughlin said after all. Giannulli called the adviser a ‘nosy bastard’. Loughlin then told her daughter, “Don’t say too much to that man.”
Both daughters have been charged in connection with the case
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In addition to Loughlin and Giannulli, prosecutors counted dozens of other parents in the college’s education scam. Among them was actress Felicity Huffman, who paid $ 15,000 to have one over the answers to her daughter’s SAT. In September 2019, a judge sentenced the Desperate housewives die up to two weeks in prison. She completed her sentence in October 2019.
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