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Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in a college admission scandal that rocked higher education, prosecutors said Thursday. In a plea deal with federal prosecutors in Boston, the "Full House" actress and husband Mossimo Giannulli agreed to serve time in prison for passing off their daughters as elite athletes and securing their admission to the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors in Boston said. Loughlin has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, and Giannulli to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud, authorities said. If a federal judge signs off on the deals, Loughlin will spend two months in prison, pay a $150,000 fine, be subjected to two years of supervised release and perform 100 hours of community service, prosecutors said. Giannulli agreed to five months in prison, a $250,000 fine, two years of supervised release and 250 hours of community service. |
Isn't it about the people who didn't get scholarships who truly needed it, because, in theory, the scholarship money was taken by fake applicants?
I think it's more of a deterrent than anything else, that if you do this, you are going to go to jail.
Ideally there's a chilling effect on the uncaught and future perpetrators of this type of malfeasance, but I doubt it. Probably just means a few new hoops to jump through for the same results.
The hilarious thing to me is that Lori Loughlin's daughter was already incredibly successful on snapchat/instagram and was earning untold amounts of money. College isn't for everyone, and that includes the hyper-successful.
Now, with the reputational hit she's taken I'm sure this will dog her more than if she had never went to USC.
This country is doomed, obviously.
I know the crimes are different and they had different presence before, but either way - Laughlin was "canceled" even before pleading guilty.
It will be interesting to see if she has any career afterwards or if she's relegated to reality show type stuff.
lol (from what I hear).
Aunt Becky still looks great all these years later.
As does DJ. Cameron-Bure is actually amazingly beautiful these days.
One of the few fair playing fields between the haves and have notes in this country is standardized achievement for young people. Of course educational institutions choose students for all types of non-merit reasons. And that's their right.
But for the little corner reserved for merit, fairness is a virtue worth fighting to maintain.
Well done by Aunt Becky.
By the way... i fully admit to being slow.... what is the Varsity Blues reference?
Well done by Aunt Becky.
By the way... i fully admit to being slow.... what is the Varsity Blues reference?
It was the name of the federal sting op
that theyre unfortunately too many things still stacked against them ,even in 2020
a bunch of rich, mostly white people gaming the system even more is obscene
It disgust me. And I am not a minority and come from upper middle class backround.
These people were poorly advised. None of what they did was necessary. Send the kid to private high school, pick a school on the other coast, donate to said school, plug the child of a celebrity and young entrepreneur angle and she probably could have gotten admitted to Yale.
Sure, let's allow white collar crime to go unpunished. Should prosecutors ignore charging anyone with the means to hire good attorneys?
Falsifying transcripts is different. I guess USC doesn't play the same game as many other schools so they tried this. There should be some level of punishment. But jail time for this is extreme.