Although she has up till November 19 to report herself to prison for a college admissions scandal, Lori Loughlin has reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, where she will serve two months of a prison sentence. Loughlin, 56, and husband Mossimo Giannulli, 56, were convicted for paying $500,000 to William Singer to pass off their daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli as professional athletes to get them admitted into the University of Southern California.
The couple did not initially agree to their wrongdoing when the scam surfaced and the case dragged in court for more than one year. Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman who was also implicated in the fraud pleaded guilty and served 11 days at the Federal Correctional Institution prison in California in October 2019 and also agreed to one year of probation after her release.
Loughlin and Giannulli ultimately pleaded guilty to their offense. She was sentenced to two months in prison and ordered to restitute $150,000 and also complete 100 hours of community service. She will be subjected to two years of post-release supervision after completing her sentence. Her husband got a harsher sentence of five months in prison, a fine of $250,000, 250 hours community service, and two years of probation after release, CBS News reports.
Giannulli published professional photos where their daughters were rowing with real equipment, making them look like professional athletes. He also has till November 19 to report himself to the Federal Correctional Institute in Lompoc but is yet to do so even though his wife turned up at her prison facility on Friday. Inmate No. 77827-112 was assigned to Loughlin after she was processed at the facility.
Observers had initially believed that Loughlin would be posted to serve her prison term at the Federal Correctional Institution in Victorville, California, but the judge and the Bureau of Prisons allowed her to choose any facility where she wanted to serve her term. She eventually chose the Dublin facility, a low-security camp with about 874 prison inmates. She will undergo 14 days of mandatory COVID-19 isolation after reporting to the facility.
“I made an awful decision,” the Full House actress said during her sentencing in court. “I went along with a plan to give my daughters an unfair advantage in the college admissions process. In doing so, I ignored my intuition and allowed myself to be swayed from my moral compass.”
Although close associates said the actress is very afraid of going to prison, Loughlin had said in court that she was ready to “do everything in my power to redeem” herself. It is however obvious that she might be released a few days before the New Year, even though Giannulli will obviously spend Christmas and New Year in incarceration to serve his own five-month prison term.
Source: yahoo.com
