Lori Loughlin & Other Parents Beg For Dismissal In College Bribery Scandal
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, along with other parents, are urging a federal judge for a dismissal in their college bribery scandal.
All parents involved are arguing that the government trapped them and that prosecutors exercised “extraordinary” misconduct; this by bulling an informant — admissions consultant Rick Singer — into lying, then proceeding to conceal evidence that would prove the parents’ claims of innocence.
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Attorneys for the parents wrote, “For government agents to coerce an informant into lying on recorded calls to generate false inculpatory evidence against investigative targets—and to then knowingly prosecute those targets using that false evidence—is governmental malfeasance of the worst kind.”
They add, “The extraordinary government misconduct presented in this case threatens grave harm to defendants and the integrity of this proceeding. That misconduct cannot be ignored.”
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Per the filing, Singer wrote, “They continue to ask me to tell a fib and not restate what I told my clients as to where there money was going — to the program not the coach and that it was a donation and they want it to be a payment.”
Furthermore, Loughlin and Giannulli are due back in a Boston federal court on October 5; where they’ll face charges for paying $500,000 in bribes for their two daughters’ admission into the University of Southern California.
The girls were admitted as crew recruits, despite neither of them being a rower.