BREAKING NEWS: Lori Loughlin will serve just two months in prison and her husband Mossimo Giannulli will serve five months for bribing college officials to get their daughters into school after taking a plea deal to avoid spending 40 years behind bars

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 21, 2020 | Jennifer Smith

[SoCal Pubbie]

But not simple research skills. Yes, college officials have been sentenced to jail time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal

[Delta 21]

Apples and oranges.

I think they should should both be drug behind a pickup truck down a gravel country road for a few miles each. One drives one gets drug. OK......NOW SWITCH!!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The FIB sure has their priorities straight.

[Maudeen]

Money talks so people walk.

[WASCWatch]

They will either serve at a Club Fed or home confinement.

The feds couldn’t risk going to trial because they would likely lose. Their attorneys had likely demanded all the records related the the admissions of children of other famous or connected people.

For 2 and 5 months, it a as a deal they couldn’t possibly pass up.

[kiryandil]

Lori blinked.

Do you blame her?

Look at Michael Flynn.

[WASCWatch]

The Green River killer in Washington was offered life in exchange for information about the many women’s bodies that had not been found.

[kiryandil]

He might have volunteered to take the bigger hit.

It's a man thing.

[NormsRevenge]

Can’t wait until they have their own reality show after they get out of jail. Well, I guess I can wait.. but it’s gonna be tough. NOT!!!

[Flick Lives]

I’m beginning to think this whole FBI Varsity Blues initiative was to provide “cover” for the FBI’s own crimes being exposed. They thought a bunch of celebs being rounded up would deflect coverage from the FBI’s own gross criminal activity.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sounds like a punishment that fits the crime. For people who don’t normally commit crimes a week in prison would probably be enough punishment. Not to mention the public shame and $150,000 fine. They are being made an example of so nobody will do this in the future.

[Sans-Culotte]

She’s crazy to take a deal that involves any real prison time. Hopefully for her this is “home detention.”

Maybe she figured out that it could be home detention due to "Covid-19 concerns", etc

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The idea that bribery ever meritted 40 years is a joke.

[mmichaels1970]

I KNEW she was going to cop a plea. I predicted 30 days and $50k. Wrong there. 60 days and $150k. Not too shabby though. A regular Carnac the Magnificent.

[mmichaels1970]

A threat of 40 years for lying to get your kid in college is the mark of a police state.

What it is is the sign of a state that has decided that granting people a right to a fair trial is too inconvenient. So you stack so many charges and escalate the risk to a level where it is nearly an impossible position to pursue an actual trial.

Why else does a prosecutor go from 40 years to two months? It’s the “trial penalty”. Sentences that are meant to punish a person for even daring to go to trial.

Imagine an innocent person having to gamble on a jury where the wrong decision costs you the remainder of your life. Or you can cop a plea and start putting the whole thing behind you after a couple months. That’s a hard choice to make.

I believe 94% of cases end in a plea bargain.

[mmichaels1970]

Coercive plea bargaining has poisoned the Criminal Justice system.

Amen. A gamble at 40 years or a two month sure thing. Awful.

[mmichaels1970]

Sounds like a punishment that fits the crime.

Had she gone to trial and lost it would fit. The fact that they held 40 years over her head to coerce her to waive her right to a fair trial should also be a crime.

[Drew68]

Imagine an innocent person having to gamble on a jury where the wrong decision costs you the remainder of your life. Or you can cop a plea and start putting the whole thing behind you after a couple months. That’s a hard choice to make.

I take this into consideration any time I read someone has "pled guilty" to a crime.

It's what I used to think only happened in places like China or Soviet Russia.

[mmichaels1970]

I take this into consideration any time I read someone has "pled guilty" to a crime.

It's what I used to think only happened in places like China or Soviet Russia.

Me too. I cringe every time I hear somebody say: “If they didn’t do it, why did they plead guilty?”

[mmichaels1970]

The idea that bribery ever meritted 40 years is a joke.

Agreed. It merits the two months or so. They just use that 40 to ensure the accused is too terrified to fight back. It all but guarantees a “win” for the prosecution.