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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2019 17:15:51 GMT
Gather round, children, because I have an update on everyone's favorite college admissions scandal, aka "Operation Varsity Blues." When we left Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli earlier this week, the couple had rejected a plea deal and consequentially are now facing up to 40 years in prison. Meanwhile, fellow celeb/college scammer Felicity Huffman decided to take the plea deal on Monday, and is facing way less severe sentencing. Now, Lori and Mossimo are allegedly "blaming each other" for the situation, but the good news is that their daughter Olivia Jade is reportedly no longer pissed at her parents for ruining her career/making her go to college in the first place (there is *ample* evidence that getting a higher education was not on OJ's priorities list).  But even with the potential 40-year sentence looming, Lori is reportedly still having a little trouble wrapping her head around the fact that she did anything wrong. A source close to the actress tells People, “it’s just taking some time for it to sink in that what she was allegedly doing could be considered illegal. To her, it wasn’t egregious behavior. Was it entitled and perhaps selfish? Perhaps. But she didn’t see it as being a legal violation.” |
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2019 17:29:07 GMT
After Lori Loughlin and her designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, passed up the plea deal Felicity Huffman took, the Department of Justice slapped some additional money laundering charges on top of their previous wire fraud charges. Now, the couple basically said "no, ma'am" to all of the above and pleaded not guilty for their alleged involvement in the college admissions scandal.  Last week, Lori and Mossimo appeared in court, but they said they weren't ready to make a decision about whether or not to plead guilty to allegedly giving $500,000 to a phony charity to get their daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose into the University of Southern California. Today, the couple finally made a choice and rejected the prosecutor's plea deal that would've given them a minimum two-year prison sentence. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2019 17:30:37 GMT
Video footage of Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin has become part of a legal battle in the college admissions scandal, with prosecutors asking a judge to restrict access to evidence they will begin turning over to defense attorneys. Over the last year, federal investigators in Massachusetts have amassed a trove of emails, wiretapped phone calls, surveillance photographs and video and financial records that they used to build a case, unsealed last month, implicating 50 people in a vast conspiracy to subvert the admissions process at some of the country’s most selective universities.  Huffman and Loughlin — two of 33 parents charged with fraud, conspiracy and other crimes — headlined a list of defendants including well-known names from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Newport Coast. |
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2019 18:12:08 GMT
The mother of a Chinese student said she was unwittingly ensnared in a sprawling college admissions scandal, believing the $6.5 million she paid to get her daughter into Stanford University was a legitimate donation that would go to scholarships for needy children.  The mother of Yusi Zhao, who attended Stanford, said through her attorney that she was tricked by William "Rick" Singer, the college consultant at the center of the admissions scandal, into thinking the donation was legitimate, according to the Los Angeles Times. The development adds more intrigue to the admissions scandal, which has led to the arrests of dozens of wealthy parents, including celebrities, high-profile lawyers and investors, and the heiress to the Hot Pocket fortune. The FBI arrested 50 people in March in connection with Operation Varsity Blues, an investigation that uncovered a widespread college bribery scheme. Prosecutors say parents including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help their children lie and cheat their way in to selective colleges. Several, including Singer and many of his associates, have already pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges and are set to be sentenced later this month. |
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2019 17:47:19 GMT
Lou Diamond Phillips has launched an astonishing attack on the famous names linked to the college admissions scandal - proudly proclaiming his own children 'can hold their heads high, because they don't cheat, they don't lie and they don't misrepresent themselves.'  Phillips came out firing against some of Hollywood's major names linked to the scandal, telling DailyMailTV: 'Unfortunately we are seeing a lot of people who want to duck responsibility these days.'  The father-of-four's comments are a clear public shot at Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman and Fuller House star Lori Loughlin, who are among nearly three dozen parents charged in the fraud scheme to get their children into elite colleges and universities. Phillips, 57, added: 'I am saddened, because I have respect for some of the people involved. But it did remind me that I am quite proud that my own children have made their own way.' |
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