Lori Loughlin's Full House Co-Star Breaks Silence As Judge Refuses To Dismiss Charges

Lori Loughlin is getting a little extra love from her TV family this week — and based on the latest update in her case she could use it!

While John Stamos and Bob Saget have both shown support for their longtime friend, it seemed the only Full House co-star who hadn’t weighed in was Dave Coulier, AKA Uncle Joey.

The onscreen prop comic kept the trademark silliness out of his response when asked by Us Weekly about Lori’s legal troubles, saying he couldn’t really comment directly on the case but joined his colleagues in saying “we love her dearly” and that it “didn’t feel right” and was “really sad” filming the final season of Netflix‘s revival series Fuller House without her. He also spoke from the heart, saying:

“However this kind of turns out, we’re there for her. The images that people see aren’t always what is true. And Lori is one of my closest and dearest friends on the planet, and it’s really unfortunate that this has happened, and I will be there for her forever.”

Awww. It’s like a moment from a very special episode… in which Aunt Becky and her husband are accused of bribery and fraud in an attempt to get their kids an unearned acceptance to USC but refuse to plead guilty and accept responsibility like nearly two dozen others have.

Those words of encouragement are probably especially nice right now as Lori and hubby Mossimo Giannulli were dealt a bit of a blow on Friday.

The defense team filed a motion to dismiss the charges entirely based on accusations by a key witness that he had been coerced into lying. Their evidence? Rick Singer — the man behind the scam, who cooperated with the FBI after getting busted — had written notes in his iPhone claiming the feds wanted him to lie to his clients while gathering evidence for the government’s case. Per court docs, he wrote at the time:

“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.”

Lori and Moss got a hopeful tease last month when the judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton, called the allegations “serious and disturbing.”

However, when it came to the ruling, Gorton sided with the prosecution, who argued these contemporaneous notes were written by Singer before he had fully agreed to accept responsibility for his crimes. The agents involved also denied pressuring the entrepreneur to lie, saying they just wanted him to get his clients to confirm more explicit descriptions of the scheme they had entered into with him and his fake charity.

Prosecutors also scored against another defense argument, essentially that the parents hadn’t heard the word “bribe” and therefore thought what they were doing was legal. The feds pointed out it doesn’t matter what an illegal quid pro quo is called, the act is ultimately the same.

Gorton apparently agreed as he denied the motion to dismiss, meaning the trial will go on as scheduled in October.

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