and Mossimo Giannulli struck a deal with prosecutors for their role in the college admissions scandal, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Massachusetts announced on Thursday.
The Full House star, 55, and her fashion designer husband, 56, will both plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. They were accused of paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University Southern California as crew recruits, despite neither having played the sport. Giannulli has also agreed to plead guilty to honest-services wire and mail fraud, which ups his prison time.
Under the terms of Loughlin’s agreement, she will receive a sentence of two months in prison, a $150,000 fine and two years of supervised release with 100 hours of community service. Giannulli will serve five months in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and have two years of supervised release with 250 hours of community service.
Is that fair? And what’s the likelihood either Loughlin or Giannulli even see the inside of a prison cell given the coronavirus pandemic? Yahoo Entertainment consulted with two lawyers about the agreement.
Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Lisa Houle said she’s “not surprised at all” by the plea deal, which she called “reasonable.”