Who is LL lawyer? Apologies if it was already mentioned. |
Lori is getting bad legal advice or not following good legal advice. |
A parent of a junior.
My kid can not bribe her way in but l think all this is a distraction. Some of it is overkill & becoming a waste of tax payer funds. No I don't sympathise with these characters. If colleges were not rigging and complicating the admissions process we might not be here. Some of the DCUM posts are a reflection of this bizarre lottery to get kids into College. The whole college admissions process is becoming this weird process and our kids are getting to breaking point trying to make themselves better than their peer to get a spot. Ends of morning rant, back to supporting exhausted ambitious kid. |
If your kid has worked hard in HS, is college ready and is motivated to go to college, your kid will get into college.
It's the parents of the kids who have played their entire academic career, cheated on tests and otherwise not taken school seriously who are pulling these last minute Hail Mary stunts for their kids. It's shameful and it's really, really sad. Their kids basically grow up learning how to cheat the rules to get stuff. What Loughlin and her husband did to their daughters is just criminal. If those girls turn around and sue their parents for all they've got that would not surprise me in the least. That's the type of kids that these parents have raised. |
LL and co broke the law. You can try to make a case that the laws shouldn't exist. But it's not a waste of taxpayer funds to enforce laws. It's illegal to bribe your way into school and take an enormous tax writeoff for it. |
Touché. |
They are also, likely, having the book thrown at them. It's just that they aren't D-list celebrities, so no one is reporting on them. |
Now, based on a report by Us Weekly, it looks like both Lori and Mossimo will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). |
Easy case of conspiracy based on publicly revealed info, just for starters.
IIRC, she knew (unlike F Huffman'skid), what was going on. I say prosecute her. Signed, Former Federal LE attorney / Criminal defense attorney / former judge |
Entitlement. Hollywood scum. |
Well, I would hope the IRS would audit them both. Don't worry Lori, it's "just" the IRS. |
As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong) she and her husband are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering, not tax evasion. |
I'm guessing an audit will fix that. |
I was responding to the bolded which doesn't even address what she's being charged with. Bribing you way into college isn't illegal, and while taking a tax write-off for it should be illegal, she's not being charged with that. |
IRS criminal investigators are not always brought into the case right away because they are overworked and stretched thin. My guess is the prosecutors were hoping LL would plead guilty to the other charges, making the IRS-CI help unnecessary. Now that LL is fighting, they are bringing in IRS-CI and will end up filing a superseding indictment that includes a tax charge. Would expect that to take maybe 6 months. |