In the college bribery scandal in the United States, actress Lori Loughlin (55) and her husband have been sentenced to prison terms, according to the media. A court in the US state of Massachusetts sentenced Loughlin and designer Mossimo Giannulli to two and five months in prison for fraud, as US media reported on Friday. They also have to pay a total of $ 400,000 fine. The couple had previously accepted the sentences in a deal with the prosecutor and in return promised to plead guilty.
Loughlin and Giannulli are said to have paid $ 500,000 to a mastermind to mistakenly pass their two daughters off as rowers and place them on the sports team at USC University in California. Several wealthy parents were also charged with bribing college and university staff in the United States to place their children in prestigious colleges. The couple had initially pleaded “not guilty”. Loughlin is known from the sitcom “Full House”.
In the scandal, Felicity Huffman (“Desperate Housewives”) was sentenced to two weeks in prison in 2019. She did not complete the sentence. The actress pleaded guilty to paying a $ 15,000 bribe to allow her eldest daughter’s answers to an entrance exam to be corrected.
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