Dirtbag Hollywood elites, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced to two and five months in prison respectively for their roles in a college admission scandal when they paid mastermind, William Rick Singer, $500,000 to get both of theirs into USC.
CNN:
The actress Lori Loughlin was sentenced to two months in prison on Friday for her role in the college admissions scandal, a fate she and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, initially tried to avoid after they were charged by federal authorities.
Loughlin was sentenced several hours after Giannulli, who faces 5 months in prison, a $250,000 fine and 250 hours of community service, according to the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
The sentencing brings an end to the saga for Loughlin and Giannulli, arguably the parents with the highest profiles who admitted to paying the scheme’s mastermind, William Rick Singer, $500,000 to get both their daughters into the University of Southern California.
All of this is yet another example of elite priviledge in the United States where your status within American society will dictate what kind of time you’ll do given the circumstances.
For instance, Loughlin and Mossimo took part in the biggest college admissions scandal in U.S. history. At the very surface what they did was defraud the system so that their less deserving daughters could essentially take the spot at Southern Cal from another student who was more meritorious of the admission. Nonetheless, if you lay everything out Loughlin and Mossimo got a fucking slap on the wrist for what amounts to wire and mail fraud.
Juxtapose this to that of Crystal Mason or Tanya McDowell, both black mothers who received much harsher sentences to say the least for far less serious crimes. Mason is currently in year four of a five-year sentence after casting a vote in Texas when she was unaware that individuals with a prior felony conviction are ineligible to do this which is a separate topic for discussion in and of itself but I digress. McDowell meanwhile was also sentenced to five years in prison for falsifying her address to get her son into a better school district in a neighboring town.
Meanwhile, Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to three years in prison and subjected to a $30,000 fine after being convicted for using the wrong residence to get her daughters into a better school district in Ohio.
I’m sure most people haven’t heard of Ms. Crystal Mason, Tanya McDowell, or Kelley Williams-Bolar and that’s exactly the point. Neither ladies starred in some cheesy as fuck 80’s sitcom or was a regular on the Halmark Channel. But if they were, I’m sure they’d probably be out of prison already and ready to write their tell-all book on how they messed up and only wanted the best for their kids.
Anyways, it’s probably a sure a bet that both Loughlin and Mossimo don’t even serve the full extent of their sentences. They’ll probably be released on good behavior or to minimize their exposure to COVID-19. In any sense, this is what happens in an oligarchy.
