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2019-08-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Actress Lori Loughlin faces hearing in US college cheating scandal

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Actress Lori Loughlin is due in court on Tuesday for a hearing on whether the lawyers defending her against charges that she participated in a large college admissions scam have a conflict and must be disqualified.

Federal prosecutors in Boston have accused the "Full House" star and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli of arranging to pay bribes to get her two daughters admitted to the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, (USC) as purported crew recruits.

They are among 51 people charged since March with participating in a vast scheme in which wealthy parents conspired to use bribery and other forms of fraud to secure admission of their children to top universities.

Prosecutors claim they did so with the help of William "Rick" Singer, a California college admissions consultant who has pleaded guilty to facilitating cheating on college admissions tests and helping bribe university sports coaches to present clients’ children as fake athletic recruits.

Loughlin and Giannulli are both represented by the law firm Latham & Watkins, which also until recently represented USC on other matters. Prosecutors contend the firm’s representation of the alleged victim is a conflict that warrants disqualification.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 USC:
University of Spoiled Children
University of Scared Caucasians
Unfathomably Successful Cheaters

Posted by Lex 2019-08-28 01:23|| 2019-08-28 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Good thing she's cute, 'cause she ain't too smart. The Feds gave her a chance, and of all the folks involved, her and hubby were the only ones who decided to gut it out. They're going to do real time - not much, maybe a year or two, but it's gonna sting.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-08-28 04:24|| 2019-08-28 04:24|| Front Page Top

#3 ..well, hell, it wasn't like she was involved in a conspiracy to overturn the election of 2016. No one is facing time for that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-28 07:21|| 2019-08-28 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 tired of hearing about this shit

Posted by chris 2019-08-28 09:54|| 2019-08-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

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