Posted on 04/11/2019 6:37:04 AM PDT by C19fan
Lori Loughlin is starting to come to terms with the new charge against her, a source tells ET.
A day after Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were charged in a second superseding indictment on conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering, a source tells ET that, up until this point, Loughlin didn't believe she would face the possibility of serving time in prison. Despite fearing the prospect of jail, the source claims Loughlin didn't truly believe it could happen to her.
Loughlin and Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters -- Olivia, 19, and Bella, 20 -- admitted to the University of Southern California as recruits for the crew team, even though neither of them participated in the sport.
"Lori still believed in the end she would just get a slap on the wrist," the source says. "At this point she is getting complete clarity and shes scared and in terrible shape.
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No sympathy from me. Being a pretty, famous, and rich celebrity should not mean she is above the law. She is used to a life of privilege, but this time she overstepped and got caught.
Nor is it fair for her kids to take away college space from kids with no privilege who studied and worked hard to try to get in.
She’s white. She didn’t have the experience and the benefit of belonging to the race of professional victims.
SAT 1300, GPA 3.73 with ordinary HS classes.
See 61
Her charges are federal
The reporters are stacking max time for effect as they always do
See 61
I studies Westlaw sentencing guidelines for half million wire fraud and laundering with guilty plea and acceptance of responsibility and no priors
Level 18-20
I think its also jealousy
Folks around here act like 5-10 years is nothing
Feds give out time that would satisfy even the most zealous
Average bootlegger in the 20s did maybe 1-2 years
Average pot freighter guy in the 70s did less than five years
Now that guy would do 25
A black corner crack dealer with a gun around the same..18 at least
Feds have no parole
Its a canard to say we dont lock up folks...for a free industrialized nation we lock up more than anyone proportionately
people pay money to send their daughters to school for str ppers?
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