Lori Loughlin released from prison; Jessie J hospitalized; more: Buzz
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
FILE - In this April 3, 2019 file photo, actress Lori Loughlin, front, and husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston after facing charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP
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Lori Loughlin freed
“Full House” star Lori Loughlin has been released from prison. TMZ reports the 56-year-old actress was freed from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, on Monday after serving nearly two months behind bars for her role in the college admissions bribery scandal. She and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty in May after being accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, into USC with false claims about being crew athletes. Loughlin, who played Aunt Becky on the ‘90s sitcom an
Three staff members also positive; no deaths at federal facility in outbreak so far
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Over one in five inmates incarcerated at the low-security women s federal prison in Dublin has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the latest data from U.S. officials.
The active coronavirus outbreak at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin included 185 inmates and three staff members as of Wednesday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The data has not been updated online since the long Christmas weekend began.
FCI Dublin is housing 865 prisoners between its main facility and adjacent satellite camp, according to the prisons bureau.
WASHINGTON (CN) Outgoing President Donald Trump issued a pardon to former campaign manager-turned-convict Paul Manafort on Wednesday.
Manafort was convicted in August 2018 in a federal court in Virginia on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, failing to file a report for a foreign bank account and falsifying his income on federal tax returns.
The president also issued pardons to Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, and Roger Stone, a long time loyalist to President Trump, friend and former business partner of Paul Manafort.
During his trial, prosecutors unraveled Manafort’s role in hiding millions of dollars that flowed through a complex web of foreign bank accounts; records of funds that he often had doctored to defraud tax preparers and bankers.