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 Loughlin and her husband,
fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, will appear
virtually before a federal judge in Boston to be
sentenced under plea deals that call for them to
serve two months and five months in prison,
respectively.
They are among 55 people charged in a scheme
where wealthy parents conspired with a
California college admissions consultant to use
bribery and fraud to secure their children’s
admissions to top schools.
Consultant William "Rick" Singer pleaded guilty
last year to facilitating cheating on college
entrance exams and using bribery to secure the
admission of children to schools as fake
athletic recruits.
The parents include actress Felicity Huffman,
who received a 14-day prison sentence.
Loughlin, 56, and Giannulli, 57, pleaded guilty
in March, after their lawyers repeatedly
conveyed their claims of innocence. Unlike other
parents in the case, the couple filed nothing
ahead of their sentencing expressing regret.
Their plea deals also call for Loughlin and
Giannulli to pay respective fines of $150,000
and $250,000 and serve 100 and 250 hours of
community service.
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 U.S. District Judge Nathaniel
Gorton has yet to decide if he will accept their
plea deals, which restrict his ability to impose
different sentences.
Prosecutors allege Loughlin and Giannulli
conspired with Singer to fabricate parts of
their daughters' applications for admission to
USC so they could be admitted as fake rowing
team recruits.
Prosecutors said Giannulli, the "more active"
parent in the scheme, also paid $500,000 in
purported "donations" as a quid pro quo to
induce a USC employee to facilitate the
recruitment of daughters Olivia Jade and
Isabella Rose Giannulli.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by
Cynthia Osterman)
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