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Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli ordered their daughter Olivia Jade not to speak to her high school counselor ‘nosy b *****’ after questioning her candidacy for USC where she was claiming to wrong that she was coxswain.
The pair are awaiting sentencing for paying $ 500,000 to get their daughters into college in California as part of a bribery scheme led by mastermind Rick Singer. This involved them creating fake athlete profiles for girls and portraying them as star rowers.
The couple pleaded guilty to fraud charges earlier this year. Prosecutors are asking that Mossimo be jailed for five months and that Lori serve two months.
In a sentencing memorandum filed in Massachusetts court Thursday, prosecutors once again described how the couple cheated the system.
They explained how Mossimo was particularly angry with the college counselor, who had questioned Olivia Jade’s candidacy, calling him a ‘nosy’. Lori later called him a “weasel”. The adviser has not been appointed.
Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli pictured arriving in court in August last year. Couple await conviction for role in college corruption program
Olivia Jade posing on a rower, posing as a star of the crew, for her fake athlete application
In January 2018, prosecutors say, the couple and Olivia Jade were discussing the risk of the advisor “ disrupting their scheme. ”
Lori and her daughter, Olivia Jade, in February 2018. She told her not to say “too much” to the college counselors.
“When their daughter asked if she should list USC as her school of choice, Loughlin replied, ‘Yes. . . . But it could be a flag for the weasel to mingle, ”the documents say.
“Giannulli added:” F[***] him ”, and noticed that the advisor was a“ nosy ”. Loughlin then asked his daughter, “Don’t tell this man too much. ”
Three months later, after being ‘flagged’ as a recruit to the school’s crew team, the adviser intervened, telling USC officials that he had no knowledge of her. involvement in sport.
“ From what I knew of her video blogging schedule, I highly doubted that she was involved in the team, ” he said, referring to his lucrative YouTube account where she was earning money. money from makeup tutorials.
Giannulli confronted the counselor and asked him “aggressively” what he had told USC about his daughters.
‘[He] asked why [the counselor] was trying to ruin or hinder their opportunities, ”the documents say.
Lori also told Olivia Jade “not to say too much” about her nominations.
In emails to his accountant, Mossimo described having to trick the system to get the girls to school.
The couple’s other daughter, Isabella, submitted a similar fake photo
‘Good news my [older] girl [ ] is in [U]SC. . . bad [news] did I have to make the system work, ”he said in one.
In another, he asked, “The last college ‘gift’ for [my younger daughter]. Can’t I write it down? in reference to a payment of $ 200,000 he had made.
The couple will be sentenced on August 21.
They both pleaded not guilty initially, risking 40 years behind bars while other indicted parents – including Felicity Huffman – hastily agreed to the plea deals.
Earlier this year, the pair suddenly changed their mind. They also tried to rush the conviction, sparking speculation that the COVID-19 pandemic would prevent them from getting out of prison.
Prosecutors also argued on Monday that Giannulli deserved a harsher sentence than his wife because he had taken a more active role in the plot, even “ brazenly lying ” to one of his daughter’s school counselors about his athletic abilities.
Loughlin played a less active role, but was nonetheless fully complicit, eagerly enlisting Singer a second time for his youngest daughter and training her daughter not to ‘say too much’ to her high school’s legitimate advisor for fear let him not realize their fraud, ”prosecutors wrote.
The celebrity couple made it possible for their children to become ‘accomplices in crime’ by pushing Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, pictured with Loughlin, to pose in staged photographs.