Full House actress Lori Loughlin was sentenced to two months in prison

This Friday, the American actress Lori Loughlin was sentenced to two months in prison and the payment of a fine of 150,000 dollars, after pleading guilty, in the framework of the investigation that put under the magnifying glass parents who paid bribes to ensure your children’s admission to a university prestigious of that country.

Boston federal judge Nathaniel Gorton released his decision, which coincides with the prosecutor’s recommendations, after a hearing that lasted just 30 minutes and had to be held virtually, due to the coronavirus pandemic. After being released from prison, Loughlin will have to spend two years on probation and do 100 hours of community service.

The 56-year-old actress, known for her participation in the series Full House -The Three times three, as it became known in Argentina – he apologized in the middle of the audience for his actions. “I followed a plan to give my daughters an unfair advantage that only exacerbates existing inequalities,” she reflected.

This is not the first legal situation that the actress had to face this year. In May, both she and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty to the crime of bank fraud. The man, 57, was sentenced to five months in jail, which will begin to take effect on November 19. In addition, he had to face the payment of a fine of 250,000 dollars and the performance of 250 hours of community service.

Due to the couple’s decision to plead guilty, the Massachusetts federal prosecutor made the decision not to prosecute them for other crimes with which they were accused, and recommended to the judge the application of a lesser sentence.

Both Loughlin and Giannulli agreed to have paid $ 500,000 to ensure that their two daughters entered the University of Southern California, falsifying a key fact: that their daughters had extensive experience in rowing, a sport they never practiced.

Those in charge of receiving the bribes, which were part of the scheme devised by William “Rick” Singer, were coaches and university officials. It is estimated that Singer distributed a total of $ 25 million among key people in various study houses. The money, as in Louglin’s case, came from powerful couples and people in the United States. Like the couple, he also made the decision to plead guilty and collaborate with justice.

Another of those involved, Felicity Hoffman, made the same determination. The well-known actress from Desperate housewives He assumed that he had paid $ 15,000 to alter the result of his daughter’s admission exam, for which he had to spend 11 days in jail.

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