Wow Lori Laughlin has NO shame!

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It might be that they don't want to admit guilt because they are afraid their admission could be used against their daughters?

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Looks as though Olivia Jade turned 18 during September of her senior year in HS.

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Maybe they will try to bribe the judge.

I wonder how all of this affects their kids.... can they be kicked out?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they will try to bribe the judge.

I wonder how all of this affects their kids.... can they be kicked out?

I would think that the kids might be in some trouble, too. I guess it depends on the evidence that the prosecution has.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet she gets a job on the view.

If so, I would stop watching the View on principle alone.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I think people are forgetting that this is not the state pressing charges but the FEDs. The FEDs has something like a 90% prosecution rate, The FEDs also no longer commute sentences, which means you have to serve the full term of your sentence. The FEDs have unlimited resources and therefore are not capped at how much further they can investigate to throw the book at Aunt Becky.

Aunt Becky has a great legal defense team but she made the stupid decision to think that the FEDs won't prosecute her because she was a beloved actress from Full House in the 90s. Surely people wouldn't put Aunt Becky in jail, is what she thought! This is why Lori Laughlin was smiling and signing autographs. Felicity Huffman took her legal team's advice and therefore has such a lower sentence which will probably be house arrest. Felicity was indeed ashamed of her actions. Lori Laughlin was not ashamed and she managed to make the American public angry. The American public is angry because Ms. Laughlin bought her daughters a spot at USC when she could have paid for the best academic prep, her daughters didn't need to go to college they had paid partnerships with Sephora and other prominent businesses--- connections that the general American people would love to have, her daughters bragged about not wanting to attend college for an education---how many of us lie awake at night thinking about the rising astronomical rising cost of a college education?! The Ameican people are outraged because too long have the privileged and wealthy told the mass populace work hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Meanwhile, they actually mean do as I say and not do as I do.

She has managed stupidly count on her privilege and looks both of which the FEDs and the Ameican people are outraged and disgusted by.

+1 She appears to have no moral compass.

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I can tell most replies are not from lawyers. She has good counsel. She didn’t accept deal because it was not a good deal. People do not know a fraction of the facts and you will not until trial. If there actually is one. My guess is the bad facts for Huffman (having someone taking and submitting a standardized test) is a whole different thing then pretending to be an athlete. The optics look worse on the athlete one(the girl is beautiful and media fans the flames of jealousy and entitlement) but really anyone can say they are an athlete. You still need to make a team and no scholarship money was handed. Will be interesting to understand the money trail and if they believed they were submitting to an actual charity. Many things in play. My gut is this will be pleaded out but with a deal closer to Huffman. People really need to avoid drawing any conclusion from media. Stories can change by the day.

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If they wrote off the $ on their taxes isn’t there a requirement to list the 501c3 details? If they donated to a legit nonprofit why couldn’t they put that on their taxes?

I don’t know how you write something off if there are no 501c3 details to attach.

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell most replies are not from lawyers. She has good counsel. She didn’t accept deal because it was not a good deal. People do not know a fraction of the facts and you will not until trial. If there actually is one. My guess is the bad facts for Huffman (having someone taking and submitting a standardized test) is a whole different thing then pretending to be an athlete. The optics look worse on the athlete one(the girl is beautiful and media fans the flames of jealousy and entitlement) but really anyone can say they are an athlete. You still need to make a team and no scholarship money was handed. Will be interesting to understand the money trail and if they believed they were submitting to an actual charity. Many things in play. My gut is this will be pleaded out but with a deal closer to Huffman. People really need to avoid drawing any conclusion from media. Stories can change by the day.

Wrong. Her bribe was orders of magnitude larger than the Huffman bribe (500K$) and she's been charged with money laundering as well. She may be rolling the dice with a jury, but either way, she's facing serious time.

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That middle aged "proctor" who was taking the tests for these kids should be locked up in jail for a long time.

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At this point, Loughlin and her husband know they are in trouble and are doing what they have to do to save their kids. If they admitted guilt that could implicate their daughters.

The prosecution has a strong case against them, they probably should have accepted the plea deal to save themselves but they weren't going to do that if it meant giving the prosecution something to use against their daughters.

Loughlin is acting. Yes, she is plenty worried because this is very, very bad for them as a family.

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msn had something, I think from People mag, basically LL and her husband believed they were breaking "rules" not "laws"

what are the specific federal statutes (aside from the money laundering)?

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^^ turned out not that hard to find. Because the colleges deal with federal funds, bribing officials of those entities is a federal crime.

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If you’re into superstition and omens, Congress has a statute that you need to avoid. In 1984, it codified the mark of the devil in the federal criminal code, 18 U.S.C. § 666.

Section 666 was designed to curb the evil of bribery related to federal funds. Prior to its enactment, another federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201, was viewed by many courts to prohibit only the bribery of federal officials. In enacting § 666, Congress sought to protect federally funded programs from going into the red through theft and embezzlement by the direct bribery of federal officials. But it also made it a crime to commit bribery in connection with private citizens who have a relation to federally funded programs.

(from a business law site)

This has to be it.

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Ignorance of the law is not a defense against breaking it.

Writing a huge check to a phony charity and then writing it off is just appalling. How could they not know that was illegal?