Lori Loughlin Labeled Privileged On Social Media After Prison Release For College Admissions Scandal
12/28/20 AT 12:04 PM
Lori Loughlin was released from prison Monday after serving two months for her role in a college bribery scheme.
In May, Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy charges, which involved a $500,000 bribe to get their daughters, Isabella and Olivia Jade, accepted into the University of Southern California.
Giannulli is serving a five-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Complex in Lompoc, California, and will be released on April 17.
Loughlin and Giannulli had paid the scheme s mastermind William “Rick” Singer, who used inflated entrance college entrance exam test scores and bribed college officials to get wealthy parents children accepted to top universities. Fifty-three people were accused of wrongdoing in the college admissions scandal.
Lori Loughlin released from prison after serving 2 months for role in college admissions scandal
By Melissa Roberto article
Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, right, leave the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 27, 2019. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Lori Loughlin was released from prison on Monday after serving two months for her role in the national college admissions scandal that exposed the rich and famous engaging in illegal schemes to cheat on standardized tests and buy their kids into some of the country s top schools.
A spokesperson at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, Calif. confirmed Loughlin s release to Fox News.
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Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020 • December 28, 2020 • 1 minute read • In this file photo taken Aug. 27, 2019, actress Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli exit the Boston Federal Court house after a pre-trial hearing with Magistrate Judge Kelley at the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse in Boston. Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO /AFP via Getty Images / Files
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Lori Loughlin has been released from prison after completing a two-month sentence for her part in the U.S. college admissions scandal, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said on Monday.
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By Chuck Dizzle
Dec 28, 2020
Actress Lori Loughlin has been released from prison after serving a two-month sentence for her role in the now-infamous college admissions scandal.
Loughlin was released Monday from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, CA, where she began her sentence on Oct. 30th. Loughlin s husband, fashion mogul Mossimo Giannulli, is still behind bars serving a five-month sentence.
Both will be subject to two years of supervised release along with fines and community service. The couple were convicted of paying $500,000 to get their daughters admitted to USC as fake student-athletes. More than 50 parents have been charged in connection with the scam, including actress Felicity Huffman.