You know what they say: the family that scams together, stays together!
Things are finally wrapping up in Lori Loughlin’s legal battle over the college admissions scandal. It’s been over a year since she and husband Mossimo Giannulli were charged in the case, and three months since the couple finally changed their plea from “not guilty” to “guilty.” Now we’re just days away from sentencing (on August 21), but it seems like there’s still bombs to be dropped…
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Namely? How about confirmation that Loughlin’s two daughters, Bella Rose and Olivia Jade Giannulli were completely aware of, and actively complicit in, the scheme to pass them off as rowers for the University of Southern California crew team in order to gain admission to the school??
In a memo obtained by Us Weekly, Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin O’Connell wrote:
“The crime Giannulli and Loughlin committed was serious. Over the course of two years, they engaged twice in Singer’s fraudulent scheme. They involved both their daughters in the fraud, directing them to pose in staged photographs for use in fake athletic profiles and instructing one daughter how to conceal the scheme from her high school counselor.”
The memo went on to describe an occasion where Olivia Jade had asked her parents if she should list USC as her first choice school during a meeting with a high school guidance counselor. The Full House alum allegedly told her daughter:
“Yes … But it might be a flag for the weasel to meddle.”
The 57-year-old fashion designer apparently called the counselor a “nosey bastard,” while Loughlin advised her daughter:
“Don’t say too much to that man.”
Damn!
Nosey bastard? Meddling weasel?? That isn’t dialogue from Full House, it’s straight out of The Sopranos!
If you’ve been following this story for a while now, this news is… well, pretty obvious, actually. It was always hard to imagine the girls posing for those ridiculous rowing pics without knowing the reason behind it. But these new details finally confirm our suspicions, and paint a very inneresting picture!
Just speculating here, but if the scheming couple thought the counselor was nosey during their younger daughter’s admissions process, is that because he had started to get wise to the fraud with Bella the year before? We have to wonder…
Plus, from what we’ve heard, Olivia has been angry with her parents and embarrassed by their actions… but it’s hard to be sympathetic knowing she was part the scheme as well!
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Ultimately, the blame still lies with Loughlin and Giannulli. They’re the ones throwing money around, they’re the ones who dragged their daughters into the scheme in the first place. It’s a bad example to set for your kids, and it shows a very sad lack of faith that their daughters could get into college on their own merits.
That being said, the girls were old enough to know that what their parents were doing is wrong AND they both knew darn well they were interested in careers that didn’t require college anyway.
Speaking of which, if Olivia is really still concerned about rebuilding her brand, she should really make a video telling her side of the story and admitting what she did was wrong. We think that would probably rack up a few views, at the very least!
[Image via FayesVision/WENN]
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