After maintaining their innocence for more than a year, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli plead guilty to fraud in the college admissions scandal.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband pleaded guilty Friday to charges of fraud in the college admissions scandal, admitting they scammed their daughters’ way into USC with lies and illegal payments.
Nonetheless, the guilty pleas marked a sharp about-face for the couple. Since their arrests more than a year ago, Loughlin and Giannulli maintained their innocence, repeatedly pleading not guilty as prosecutors ratcheted up pressure on them with enhanced charges, including conspiracy to commit fraud, bribery and money laundering.
Afterward, under questioning from U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, acknowledged the allegations laid out by the prosecutor were accurate. Sentencing is set for Aug. 21. It was not clear whether the judge would decide on signing off on the plea deals before then.There are reasons to think he could have concerns with the proposed punishments. Gorton has already sentenced four other parents in the wide-ranging scandal, and the shortest sentence has been five months for a mother who paid Singer far less money than Loughlin and Giannulli.
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