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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLoughlin, husband and 14 parents face new charge in college admissions bribery scam
Source: Associated Press
Loughlin, husband and 14 parents face new charge in scam
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
April 9, 2019
BOSTON (AP) Full House star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents were hit Tuesday with a new money laundering charge in the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme.
The move comes a day after fellow actress Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents and a coach agreed to plead guilty signaling an escalation in the case against the parents who are continuing to fight the allegations against them.
Loughlin and Giannulli were among 33 prominent parents accused of participating in a scheme that involved rigging college entrance exams and bribing coaches at elite universities.
They were arrested last month on a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. An indictment brought Tuesday adds a charge of money laundering conspiracy against the couple and 14 other parents.
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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
April 9, 2019
BOSTON (AP) Full House star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents were hit Tuesday with a new money laundering charge in the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme.
The move comes a day after fellow actress Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents and a coach agreed to plead guilty signaling an escalation in the case against the parents who are continuing to fight the allegations against them.
Loughlin and Giannulli were among 33 prominent parents accused of participating in a scheme that involved rigging college entrance exams and bribing coaches at elite universities.
They were arrested last month on a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. An indictment brought Tuesday adds a charge of money laundering conspiracy against the couple and 14 other parents.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/e4a973e7b5e042ebb4df6b5e181c401e
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Source: U.S. Attorney's Office - District of Massachusetts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
16 Parents Involved in College Admissions Scandal Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in Boston
BOSTON Sixteen parents involved in the college admissions scandal were charged today in Boston in a second superseding indictment with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to use bribery to cheat on college entrance exams and to facilitate their childrens admission to selective colleges and universities as purported athletic recruits.
The defendants, all of whom were arrested last month on a criminal complaint, are charged with conspiring with William Rick Singer, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., and others, to bribe SAT and ACT exam administrators to allow a test taker to secretly take college entrance exams in place of students, or to correct the students answers after they had taken the exam, and with bribing university athletic coaches and administrators to facilitate the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits.
The second superseding indictment also charges the defendants with conspiring to launder the bribes and other payments in furtherance of the fraud by funneling them through Singers purported charity and his for-profit corporation, as well as by transferring money into the United States, from outside the United States, for the purpose of promoting the fraud scheme.
The following defendants were charged in the second superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering:
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The charge of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud provides for a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. The charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering provides for a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the money laundering. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019
16 Parents Involved in College Admissions Scandal Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in Boston
BOSTON Sixteen parents involved in the college admissions scandal were charged today in Boston in a second superseding indictment with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to use bribery to cheat on college entrance exams and to facilitate their childrens admission to selective colleges and universities as purported athletic recruits.
The defendants, all of whom were arrested last month on a criminal complaint, are charged with conspiring with William Rick Singer, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., and others, to bribe SAT and ACT exam administrators to allow a test taker to secretly take college entrance exams in place of students, or to correct the students answers after they had taken the exam, and with bribing university athletic coaches and administrators to facilitate the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits.
The second superseding indictment also charges the defendants with conspiring to launder the bribes and other payments in furtherance of the fraud by funneling them through Singers purported charity and his for-profit corporation, as well as by transferring money into the United States, from outside the United States, for the purpose of promoting the fraud scheme.
The following defendants were charged in the second superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering:
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The charge of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud provides for a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. The charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering provides for a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the money laundering. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/16-parents-involved-college-admissions-scandal-indicted-federal-grand-jury-boston
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Loughlin, husband and 14 parents face new charge in college admissions bribery scam (Original Post)
Eugene
Apr 2019
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redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)1. I hope to see them all in orange real soon.
I am more than sick of dealing with these entitled helicopter parents. The past 10 years it has gotten so much worse in higher ed. Anyone who deals with students on a regular basis can attest to this. They have to make an example of these parents in hopes of slowing this stuff down at least a little.
Yes, it has been going on forever, but it has gotten so much worse in the past 10 years.
keith sw
(45 posts)4. Don't hold your breath
Rich white people rarely go to jail in America
47of74
(18,470 posts)2. From the Full House to the Big House
Lori having to serve any amount of time is not all that likely but a 47 can dream...
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Nothing happens,
plea deal to broken Hang Nail and pay a fine.