We haven’t talked about Lori Loughlin in a while, so I’m glad that Us Weekly is providing us with a little reminder that she’s still around and still a delusional piece of trash ensconced in white privilege. For months, we’ve heard Lori and her team testing out various legal/PR strategies for how Lori and Mossimo Giannulli are going to beat the federal charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, all to get their dumb daughters into college. The general vibe on Lori’s defense is that she’s very “faith-based” and she just loves her daughters so much and she would do anything for them and she didn’t even know what she was doing was illegal, okay? Which might work in California courtroom, but this is a federal case and the trial will be in Boston. I just feel like Lori isn’t really getting the best legal counsel. Anyway, here’s the reminder:
The nationwide college admissions scandal may have simmered down in the news, but Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are still working hard behind the scenes to clear their names.
“They believe they’ll be exonerated,” a source says exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly, adding that the couple are “actively engaged in their defense.”
The Full House alum, 54, and the fashion designer, 56, were among the 51 people who were indicted in March for their alleged involvement in the bribery scam. The parents of Bella, 20, and Olivia Jade, 19, were accused of paying $500,000 to have their daughters designated as University of Southern California crew team recruits — despite their inexperience in the sport — so they would be accepted into the school.
The source tells Us that the actress and the Mossimo founder “won’t even talk about taking any type of” plea bargain in the Operation Varsity Blues case, which will likely go to trial in early 2020.
So there you go. Even after months have passed and additional charges have been added and legal strategies have been aired in People Magazine, Lori Loughlin still believes her wealth and churchy persona have insulated her from any real consequences. What scares me still is that she may be right. By the time the trial goes down next year, I worry that most of the gossip outlets and news outlets will have already moved on completely to other stories. So Lori will get to prance into court holding a Bible and cry her tears and she will end up completely exonerated.
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Just a girl who thinks she’s above the law.
Sorry, but this is just catnip with her sweaters/T-shirts.
Just another white girl who decided to go for the churchy defense. Yawn.
Hope the DA is an Elliot Ness type, relentless, determined, dogged. Her bribe was ten times the size of Felicity’s, so she should get ten times as much in her sentence. I can dream.
Throw ’em in prison and throw away the key. These creeps are such narcissists even that won’t teach them a lesson.
I doubt federal courts pay the slightest bit of attention to the tabloids.
Even with the I-loved-my-daughters-so-much argument, it will be hard for her to get around her fake $500,000 donation to the “charity” which was actually payment for services rendered – getting her dumb ass kids into an elite school.
So LL takes a half million dollar tax deduction on her tax return which reduces her taxable income by half million dollars? Which takes $100,000-$200,000 of taxes off her owed total? The IRS doesn’t care how much she loved her daughters. They will see a tax dodge because that’s what it was. Stupid woman – it wasn’t enough for her to bribe her kids’ way into an elite school. She had to get twice the benefit by making it tax fraud too.
I ran my own law practice for many years and I never, ever went anywhere near this kind of thing. The tax department never forgets and they never forgive. They have the power to destroy you. Always tell them the whole truth. Never try to rip them off.
Exactly. The day that tabloids and gossip columns can influence the outcome if a federal case, is the day we should all be Concerned.
I do think Lori and her stupid husband could escape a guilty verdict if they have really great attorneys. Look at OJ and Epstein. Money can make a difference.
“Faith based” is some bullshit, you can’t fall back on that now trying to manipulate people. Why didn’t she simply pray and trust in God to get her daughters into college? Wonder if she used her faith to teach them morals, like how cheating is wrong. I could go on and on, but that made me livid reading that, faith my ass.
Agreed. Her efforts to get her kids into elite schools (in spite of their uh, lack of scholastic talent) speaks volumes about her so-called “faith”. I think Aunt Becky’s bible is covered in dust because she never picks it up!
I love what these people are actually saying about their own children – that they are too stupid AND too lazy to get into a Tier 1 school any other way. No amount of tutoring could save their dim-witted spawn from a future as a barista in the valley. So it’s mom and dad to the rescue with the big bucks.
Suspect she’s ignoring legal advice. Good. Let Aunt Becky with the bad hair sink herself.
I’m hoping that her jury fully represents Boston and she gets a group made up of Ayanna Pressleys and Stephen Lynchs, who will eye roll her right into the harbor before sending her off to prison.
I hope she then appeals and her case gets assigned to Appeals Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, who grew up in segregated schools in the South, got into Brown, became a federal appeals court judge, married a guy who grew up in poverty in TX & also attended segregated schools but went on to UCLA and became a RI superior court judge, as did his brother. Rogeriee is direct, strong, and at times sarcastic, and I would dearly love to hear her take on this nonsense.
Love the scenario you just painted.
This is AWESOME. Bloody well done, Lightpurple!
I’m a criminal defense attorney, and my firm is representing another rich parent in this case. There is no way she goes to trial and gets acquitted. Not a chance.
Unfortunately, I fear Aunt Becky might somehow skate on her crimes. If there’s a way, her whiteness and “faith” nonsense will get her a slap on the wrist. I hope I’m wrong……
With the way things are going in this country, and because rich, white people get away with almost everything — I can see why they think they will get off. I mean look how long Epstein lasted and all the agencies and legal hoops he was supposed to jump through…that conveniently never got followed up. Look how that Orange Menace in the White House got away with DECADES of corruption, cheating people, laundering money, sexual assault, hanging out with Epstein, threats of violence against competitors — and there he sits, shitting on the world stuffing his fat face with big macs and laughing all the way to the bank.
So yeah, her confidence of her and her hubby getting off scot free is a real possibility.
I bet they get off. This story is gossip gold, and people seem to have a visceral reaction to it, but I still think they will get off scott free. The claim I heard now is they are saying they just thought it was like a donation to the school, which is allowed. College Admission has been a racket for decades and it’s gotten worse in the last years. With elite private schools holding special meetings with admission people, rigged standardized tests which were already gender and culturally biased, to huge donations for admission, a la Jared Kushner it’s just the way it’s been. It won’t be that hard for someone to say I thought I was going the legal avenue, they never told me they were doing that.
… except the staged photos that were photo-shopped into “rowing” photos don’t sound like the “legal avenue.”
I just came here to see if the picture of her in the legendary lavender sweater was posted and it was not! 🙂
You mean THIS sweater? LOLZ https://www.google.com/search?q=lori+loughlin+lavendar+sweater+photo&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS818US818&oq=lori+loughlin+lavendar+sweater+photo&aqs=chrome..69i57.27136j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
lol!!
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I’d love to be a fly on the wall when they show pictures in court of her kids as stars on the rowing team. Oops! I forgot. That whole thing was fake, just like this deluded woman’s smile and everything else about her.
None of these people will spend a day in jail. They’ll be given fines and maybe probation and/or community service but I will be SHOCKED if she or her smarmy husband ever spend time in the clink.
If it’s a federal offence, can’t Trump just pardon them if they are convicted? I assumed it was the Trump base she was trying to appeal to with the devoted Christian mother routine.
I think they will serve time. Not a lot, but they will.
The DM is running a story about her being urged by her friends to cut legal ties with her husband and get a new lawyer. Someone on this site called this, said divorce would be her next move.
But wasn’t it LL who did most of the work to get the B & JO into the school?