Boston Actress Lori Loughlin will serve two months in jail and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, will serve five months after the couple pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in the college admission scandal. A federal judge accepted the couple’s pleas Friday in a video conviction hearing.
Loughlin, 56, will also pay a $ 150,000 fine, serve 100 hours of community service and be released on probation for two years. Giannulli, 57, is ordered to pay a $ 250,000 fine, serve 250 hours of community service and serve two years of probation.
“I deeply regret the damage my actions have caused my daughters my wife and others. I am ready to accept the consequences and move forward with the lessons I have learned from this experience,” Giannulli said at the hearing.
The couple was accused of paying $ 500,000 to secure access for their two daughters to the University of Southern California by dressing them as potential athletic recruits. A fake resume for her daughter Olivia Jade, a YouTube star, shows that the couple suggested Jade was a complete rower.
Police officers for Loughlin and Giannulli originally said the couple did nothing wrong and the half a million dollars they paid were “legitimate donations.” A motion to dismiss the prosecutors was denied in May. The couple’s lawyers argued that federal agents had William “Rick” Singer, the alleged ringleader of the scheme, to “bend the truth”, but U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton ruled that the actions of the prosecutors were not abusive.
Before handing over the sentence, Judge Gorton advised Giannulli to commit a “crime motivated by hubris” that is “defined by wanton arrogance and excessive pride.” Gorton said most of the people he sees did not grow up with role models, are abused, or live in sluggish conditions and have to deal with difficult choices.
“That’s not the case with you. You describe yourself as a stable family. You are an informed businessman. You certainly knew better, but you sponsored a breathtaking fraud on our education system,” the judge said. “You did not steal bread for your family.”
Eugene Ansley and Audrey McNamara contributed to this report.
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