• Scandal: two actresses caught in a bribery network to access elite universities in the US
  • Operation Varsity Blues - Happy Huffman Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison for College Admissions Scandal

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli , have decided to end a fierce 14-month resistance to American justice. The actress, star of the series Forced Parents , and the Italian fashion designer, have agreed to plead guilty in the case of admissions fraud to prestigious universities in the United States, according to court documents. Loughlin, 55, is willing to serve a two-month prison sentence and face a fine. Giannulli would spend five months behind bars.

For more than a year, the couple has maintained their innocence in a case that involved hundreds of parents, led to the arrest of 50 people across the country , and became the plot of their most serious style in the history of the university system. In U.S.A. Loughlin and Giannulli spent half a million dollars to get their two daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose , to access the University of Southern California (USC) as part of the rowing team despite never having practiced the sport.

The Hollywood celebrity couple are numbers 23 and 24 on the list of defendants who choose to plead guilty. Among them is Felicity Huffman, the 57-year-old actress who already served 11 days in a minimum security prison in California in October last year. Huffman has apologized on social media for paying $ 150,000 to the plot's boss, William Rick Singer , the man who received about $ 25 million between 2011 and 2018 from more than 750 families. Now she faces a 65-year prison sentence.

Huffman paid a $ 30,000 fine and provided 250 hours of community service. Loughlin is confident the judge will accept his terms: $ 150,000 fine and 100 hours of community service in addition to the two months in prison cited. Her husband, founder of clothing brand Mossimo , would pay a $ 250,000 fine and loan 250 hours of his time to the community. Both turned themselves in to authorities in March 2019 and were released on $ 1 million bail.

It remains to be seen whether federal judge Nathaniel M. Gorton will accept the terms of the couple. So far, the lightest sentence of the four parents he has sentenced has been five months in prison. It was for a millionaire from Newport Beach, California , who paid $ 100,000 for Singer to modify his daughters' exams at USC.

Gorton himself sent an investment firm executive to prison for 9 months, his harshest punishment to date. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Andrew Lelling , has indicated in a statement that the sentences will be consistent with "the roles of each in the conspiracy to corrupt the university admissions system." Loughlin and Gianulli made one of the largest disbursements of money to favor their daughters.

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