I still enjoy hearing about Lori Loughlin’s alternate reality. In LoriWorld, federal crimes are just mere “family matters” which can be waved away through denial and leaks to People Magazine. In LoriWorld, you can get away with anything if you’re a “faith based” faux-churchy white mother. In LoriWorld, you are seen as self-sacrificing if you decide to take a deal rather than sit back and watch your daughters and your husband roll on you to cut a better deal. Yes, that’s the latest from People Magazine: after last week’s news that the FBI is investigating her daughters’ roles in the college admissions scam, Lori wants everyone to know that she would do anything to make sure her daughters would never be put in “harm’s way.”
Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli continue to deal with the legal fallout for their alleged involvement in the college admissions scandal — and the couple is willing to protect their daughters at all costs. Last week, DailyMail.com first reported that one of the couple’s daughters — either Olivia Jade, 19, or Isabella Rose, 20 — was under criminal investigation in the case. Also last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that several students had received “target letters” from federal investigators who believed they might have been complicit in their parents’ alleged acts.
A source close to Loughlin confirms the couple “has every reason to believe” their daughters could be targets of prosecution — and they are taking their daughters’ well-being into account as they proceed in the case.
“Lori will not do anything to put her daughters in harm’s way,” the source tells PEOPLE. “She is like a mama bear when it comes to the girls, and she will do whatever she has to do to protect them from prosecution, especially malicious prosecution. Her top priority in all of this is to protect her daughters.”
“The prosecution could easily charge the daughters in an attempt to get them [Loughlin and Giannulli] to plead guilty,” the source says. “But investigators have not disclosed any information that they may or may not have that would implicate either one of the daughters.”
“She will do whatever she has to do to protect them from prosecution, especially malicious prosecution…” Is it malicious prosecution if the feds are like “hey we have evidence of all four members of your family doing federal crimes, and we’ll charge your daughters based on this evidence”? And wouldn’t Lori have better protected her daughters if she had just taken the first deal on the table, rather than naively believing she could try her case in the court of People Magazine? And I guaran-f–king-tee that the feds have more than enough evidence that one or both daughters committed crimes. Like the faked rowing photos. Also: Olivia Jade was out partying this weekend. She clearly DGAF about her mom’s fake martyr act.
Last thing – Us Weekly started the ball rolling last week when they claimed Lori’s friends never really liked her husband Mossimo and that those friends believed the entire scam was Mossimo’s fault. Now Us Weekly reports that “Lori is constantly arguing with Mossimo because she is beginning to grasp that they are in very serious jeopardy.” This whole thing is going to rip her family apart and they’re all going to turn on each other.
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How delusional is this woman? They all broke the law. They are all going to be prosecuted. They are all going to turn on each other to get the best possible deal.
Perhaps she’s trying to play the Donald Trump Junior “Literally Too Stupid To Be Aware Of Committing a Crime” card?
I think it’s more the Donald Trump “say you did the opposite of what you did and hopefully everyone will get confused/believe you and forget what’s going on.”
Those girls are not going to be prosecuted. They didn’t pay bribes to coaches, they didn’t launder money, they didn’t lie to the IRS, they didn’t solicit the fraudulent services of a fake charity. And they probably had absolutely no idea any of that was going on.
The girls lied to USC about being into rowing because their parents told them to. That’s it. I don’t even think that’s a crime.
@Fanny: We don’t actually know any of that. Maybe they were involved in other aspects of the crimes. We have no way of knowing at this point.
It’s called fraud.
Lori Loughlin, Mother of Beckies….
OJ should party while she can. I hear they don’t have much nightlife at Club Fed.
The daughters don’t need to be the ones to have paid the bribes to be brought up on conspiracy charges, if there is evidence that they were participants in the fraud.
@Allie – we do have a way of knowing. The indictment has already been published and it is very detailed about what happened. The plans and conversations that went on were between Lori, Mossimo and Rick Singer by phone and some by email. There was only one email in which a daughter was copied in, and that was the email in which Lori asked for assistance filling in the USC application correctly.
The Feds know who was having his Business Manager write out the bribe checks, and that was Mossimo. Not an 18 year old girl with no money of her own.
Money laundering and fraud charges require knowledge and intent of how money is being misappropriated. Neither of the girls had anything to do with the money.
The Feds can make a huge reach and try to get the girls on some of the minor charges but they are unlikely to be successful. This is clearly a pressure tactic on the parents.
Agreed.
It’s easy to sit back and peck at the kids bc they’re rich/hyper-spoiled, but let’s be real, how many of us were really mature enough (in our late teens/early twenties) to stand-up to fraud AND our parents. Personally, I was an idiot at those ages and most of the other kids I knew were stupid too.
Seriously, the kids shouldn’t go to jail, I don’t care if they’re legally adults now. The parents though, yes, they should be punished.
Oh, Aunt Becky – the word “malicious” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
She thinks ANY prosecution is “malicious.”
She and Mossimo need to go to jail. Period. That will do more to curb this type of thing than anything else.
What shot out at me was the “mama bear” crap. Sarah Palin applied that little phrase to only Christian Republican women, as if other women just can’t care for their children like a white Republican woman can. Then Sarah’s kids kept getting arrested for doing dumb things, and the media started reporting the regular brawls at the Palin house. Now the fights are at the Giannulli’s house and Lori’s idiot friends are calling her a “mama bear.” These people are entitled morons.
I don’t feel sorry for her because she needs to pay for her crimes and losing her career + doing some jail time + paying hefty fines are solid and reasonable punishments. But…I do feel sorry for her that their actions to help their daughters have actually ended up destroying their family. I would not be surprised if there is a divorce in the next 5-10 years (perhaps right before going to prison/while they’re in there). And I would not be surprised if after this all settles, their daughters never speak to them again. It’s sad! It’s justice and it’s ironic, but it’s still sad.
Why feel sorry for her, though? If anything feel sorry for the kids. Maybe. But their mother brought this on herself and it’s not the family tragedy for which I weep.
Because I have compassion. I think she should be punished severely. I can still feel sorry for someone for watching their family break up before my eyes.
I feel even more sorry for the students who were cheated out of their fair chance at school, and for people severely punished for smaller infractions. Compassion is not a finite resource. At least, it’s not for me.
Do you feel sorry for rapist and killers too eho crimes cause there families to fall apart?
Their family is falling apart because their own greed and selfishness Lori and her husband could that took the plea deal and speared their daughters, but they decided not to. You’re delusional if you don’t think Lori has okayed her friends to go to the media trashing her husband.
Uh they’re not rapists or killers, so that’s a REALLY intense comparison.
Not really a rapist and a Killer’s actions affects their family.
One of the ladies I used to work with next door neighbor husband was arrested for having child porn on his computer and she divorced him, but had to move towms and take her kids out of the school district because he’s crimes affected her and their kids.
That does not mean people should have sympathy for him because his family was destroyed.
@Raven – Having compassion for someone does not lessen the seriousness of their crime or its impact on others.
Um rape and lying on a college application while spreading bribes around aren’t even close to the same thing. Skip the hyperbole and try again.
@Rose
Where did I say they were the same thing? I said the situation of one committing a crime and having their family destroyed in the process it’s not grounds for sympathy for the criminal.
They also committed tax fraud and tax evasion.
I feel sorry for the children whose own talents and abilities were not enough for their parents. Beyond that, all of this drama is self-inflicted and none have them has done anything but make it worse since the news broke.
runcmc, Loughlin and hubby didn’t do this to help anything but their own inflated brag-meister “See, my kids are USC students!” egos. They wrecked their lives because they were greedy and entitled, not because they cared about their daughters. Parents who care don’t force their kids to fulfill their dreams. And compassion should be reserved for the kids their scheme cheated out of their futures.
Olivia has a compassion level of zero. I’m thinking narcissism. Lori is entitled, stupid and awful. But Olivia’s behavior seems to be pathological. Like more than just a product of her entitled upbringing. It seems as though the thought of losing her family doesn’t mean a thing to her if it interferes with her ability to succeed and have fun.
They raised her. Those are their family values and she learned her lessons well.
Olivia is emotionally immature and doesn’t know how to process her feelings so she is repressing them and acting like she doesn’t care. That never ends well.
Olivia is young. Long before this story broke, she said in interviews and social media posts that she adamantly didn’t want to go to college but her parents forced her. From previous interviews, her “passion” from a pretty young age was being an ‘influencer’ and it sounds like she put a lot of effort into being a successful one (learning video editing, getting sponsorships, etc.). Her parents quite literally destroyed the path she was trying to carve for herself. Her sponsorships are gone, her dream is gone and she is now internationally famous for all the wrong reasons. Exactly how much “compassion” is a 19 year old supposed to have given the situation?
She got sponsors using her family’s names in and connections and she used the college as a backdrop to sell her stuff her crap. At any point she could have dropped out of college and went out on her own but she didn’t.
Lock Lori up. Again, my kid needed the 504 plan, and watching the awful things that happened to her was heartbreaking, and her shame in needing it was heartbreaking. So many kids need the plans for the extra test time, and the kids who need it are ashamed and sad about it. It feels humiliating to them, but it’s their right to use it to show that they can do the work, and that they want to do the work, but only need a little time, that is why Lori and Mossimo MUST GO TO JAIL.
If Jade and Bella knew, they must go to jail. So many kids of color are treated like adults for infractions far less serious than this. Stealing food out of a liquor store because you are hungry or damaged, or selling drugs as a low level distributor because you come from people who don’t benefit from class status or white status is not the same as stealing yourself and your kids increased status.
My kid needed extra test time and was avoided having to ask for it.
So many kids needing “extra time” indicates that maybe the timed tests are
cutting it too short. Maybe it’s a test problem, not a student problem.
Everyone has a different rate at which they process information, but
the slower processors are no less knowledgeable than the faster
processors. Those who are slower to retrieve information are no
less intelligent than those who are faster to retrieve information.
This longtime American equating of speed with superiority is
really detrimental to so many people.
I agree, Who Are These People. The test is designed so that most testers don’t finish, but work culture is trying to convince people that they need to work 80-hour weeks. The rich get richer off of the backs of overworked people making themselves sick trying to keep up who make less money than ever. Paying dues is one thing, but being looked down on because you want a life that includes something other than work, like preparing food for your family, or having hobbies, or spending time listening to your preschooler talk about their day, aren’t valued by a lot of men in power. A lot of women in charge are hired to hold the line, and they can be understanding or much, much worse.
My daughter survived an attempt on her life, so she needed the 504 plan to get through the end of middle school and all of high school. She was able to build more frontal lobe cells and improved executive function of the frontal lobe through performing complex musical pieces. She can read without headaches again. For my kid, the need was dire. She didn’t need any interventions prior to the assault.
Real mama bears teach their kids to fish. They don’t do everything for them, cough – Sarah Palin/Lori Loughlin – cough, and then spin it like they were “protecting” them. Life is HARD!!! Working through problems is part of life.
Christina, I’m glad you still have your daughter, that must have been a terrifying ordeal for both of you.
Mama bear protecting her “cubs” from malicious prosecution? HAHAHAHA!!!!! 🤣😅
Good times!
Ahahahahaha!!!!
I love how she keeps pushing this narrative- that she’ll do *anything* to protect her daughters, well anything that doesn’t include her taking personal responsibility for her crimes, anyway.
Second tier to the argument, the prosecutors are malicious, leaning on the poor innocent babies to get at their decent Christian mother. Setting the prosecutors up as the bad guys will only fly with the delusional that think “Christian” combined with “white” equals no fault for anything ever.
Why didn’t they just donate money for a new building or a department which I read is legal.
Is it just me or is anyone else thinking that the entire point of a higher education is completely lost on these four and it would seriously help them now if at least one of them had actually attended and/or graduated from college? Their ignorance is bountiful. There have been times when some (see Lindsay Lohan) completely escape from charges they deserve. These are not those times… Federal charges are serious. Lori can try to play the victim all she wants, but the average consumer of People or US Weekly has a kid or a friend with a kid who applied honestly and earnestly to a college or university. Lori has said nothing about hurting the people who actually deserved those places at USC and didn’t get one (Felicity Huffman did). As someone who is still paying off student loans (I graduated in 2005)…. that is what offends me most. She is not the victim. Her daughters are not either. Although I do feel bad their parents thought they were too lazy and stupid to succeed on their own and proved that with $500,000. That is sad… but what is worse is she screwed up two other kids’ education and futures and doesn’t give a sh*t about them. I hate to quote Trump… but lock her up. I hear they give time off if you take classes while on the inside.
No, Brinn, you aren’t the only one, but our culture doesn’t reward intelligence nowadays. We rewarded the ability to selll cheap clothes at Target. I was wearing my Mossimo jacket a few days ago, lol!!! I will still wear it, though I’m glad the brand left Target. Every time I wear it I now am reminded that boldness and daring are rewarded in the U.s. over intelligence and knowledge seeking. The constant reminders rule in LA, so I left.
It’s always someone else’s fault. These people are unreal.
I think coming down on the daughters is a bargaining chip more than anything. These kids are legally adults in many cases, but they’re still at the age where the parental influence is enough where I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with them going to jail over it.*
*I am well that POC and/or the economically disadvantaged are expected to suffer the consequences of their parents’ actions or youthful indiscretions all the time, so I assure you my sympathy would be extremely limited for them if they were charged, but I can see it influencing how a jury would view the prosecution. That’s why I don’t think it’s a full-throated attempt for the kill where the kids are concerned.
A mama bear fiercely protecting her cubs, keeping her girls out of harm’s way means keeping them far away from shady deals, bribery, cheats, scams and lies. This ‘mother’ figure is scary delusional.
So if my parents told me that it was ok to steal money or sell drugs, and I did it and got caught, I would be the victim too?
Kids of color are generally told not to do those things, and they get the book thrown at them when they do, and their parents don’t have the power to stop it. Olivia Jade shared that her dad scammed her own grandparents to start his company with his USC tuition, so he gave her permission to look away. It was a “proud” story in their family or she wouldn’t have felt comfortable sharing it. Cheating and lying are part of their family culture.
Um, wasn’t that the point of taking the deal??
Um….Aunt Becky? The best way to keep your kids from malicious prosecution is to not involve them in anything that warrants it.
Again, Lori and her PR team are a mess. Using the phrase “mama bear” is what got her into trouble to begin with, she did anything to get her girls into USC. Lori should just go to her local Starbucks and run these comments by people to see if their jaws drop or they burst out laughing first. This has got to be the worst celebrity PR handling ever, it just keeps going.
@Sharon Lea, she should just not do her market research at the Malibu, Calabases, or Pacific Palisades Starbucks, 🤣🤣
Ha Christina! Excellent point, those Starbucks would not provide the right market research we are talking about.
there is so much about this woman’s actions I just don’t understand and so many that make me angry.
Just wow like I am speechless on this
Malicious prosecution lol
says the mother who leads an entire family of white collar criminals
Haha OMG !! A white collar criminal ring leader is exactly what she is. Look Lori, now the IRS is on board wanting 5 years worth of your taxes and 3 years worth of your husband’s business taxes. Maybe before 16 other investigations start you and your “friends” should stop talking. I know it is hard…you are thinking I am a beautiful privileged white Hallmark angel?!?! If I explain they will understand this is just all mean malicious prosecutions. You committed crimes. They have you 16 different ways. At least your husband already likes sandals that are similar to the ones folks wear in prison…
Just like you tried to protect them from the horrors of life for not going to USC?
One of the things that really shows where Lori is at— referring to herself as “faith-based.” That term is used to describe organizations and groups. Not people. Just making it up as she goes along!
Persecution, maybe. I do feel sorry for the girls, they were just putting their faith in their parents like any other kid would do at that age.