Full House star Lori Loughlin has been arrested in Los Angeles and will appear before a judge later today over the US university bribery scandal.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement that Loughlin was taken into custody on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles.
She will be booked at the Metropolitan Detention Centre and is expected to appear before a federal magistrate at the US District Court in downtown LA.Source:SuppliedLoughlin last year admitted that her daughters were feeling pressured before she and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly bribed USC to let their children in.
“You know, I don’t ever do, I never pushed my kids to — I always say, ‘Do the best you can,’” the actress told the“For my husband too, their dad, never we were never like, ‘At school you got to get straight A’s.’ We were never those parents. We were always like, ‘You know what? Give it your all. Do the best you can ’cause in life if you give it your all and you do the best you can, that’s it. That’s all you can do.’ And that’s enough, in my opinion, especially with kids.
Prosecutors revealed on Tuesday that they planned to indicted more than 40 people in the “largest college admissions scam ever,” with Loughlin, 54, and Giannulli, 55, on their list.The couple allegedly “agreed to pay bribes totalling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC,” according to the court documents.
Ironically, Loughlin gushed over 20-year-old Isabella Rose and 19-year-old Olivia Jade’s acceptances in aLori Loughlin, centre, with the cast of Full House. Picture: GettyGiannulli appeared in court on his conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud charges on Tuesday. Loughlin was filming in Vancouver when the feds came looking for her.trending in entertainment
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