https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-amign-dozens-charged-college-entrance-exam-scandal-1194023

Fuller House star Loughlin and and Desperate Housewives alum Huffman are the biggest names among dozens charged in a nationwide college entrance exam scandal. Huffman and her husband, Shameless star William H. Macy, are accused of disguising a $15,000 charitable payment to facilitate their daughter cheating on an SAT exam. The charging papers refer to Macy only as "spouse," but he has not been indicted (https://twitter.com/JasonRileyWDRB/status/1105493746194567168). Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli, who was named, are accused of paying $500,000 to have their two daughters designated as recruits for USC's crew team -- even though they don't actually participate in crew. The scheme would guarantee their admission to USC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Huffman's daughter is said to have taken the (SAT) test in Dec. 2017 and received a 1420 on the test, a 400 point improvement from a previous test. Last October, Huffman discussed repeating this for her youngest daughter in a taped conversation that evidently the FBI has obtained. However, Huffman did not go through with the cheating for her youngest daughter, according to court papers. The confidential witness in this scheme has agreed to plead guilty to racketeering, money laundering and obstruction of justice (after alerting several subjects of the investigation of the government probe), according to court papers and has been cooperating since Sept. 2018 in a bid for leniency."

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UPDATE: Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were arrested this morning -- they each could face up to five years behind bars (https://deadline.com/2019/03/felicity-huffman-lori-laughlin-college-admissions-bribes-indictments-1202574224/)
Full House fans express shock: "Aunt Becky" is getting more attention on Twitter than Felicity Huffman (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2019/03/12/lori-loughin-indicted-full-house-aunt-becky-reactions/3139504002/)
William H. Macy discussed the "stressful" college admissions process in an interview published in January (https://people.com/movies/felicity-huffman-william-h-macy-stressful-college-admission-bribery-scandal/)
Loughlin's old tweets about school come back to haunt her (https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lori-loughlins-advice-to-kids-going-back-to-school-did-not-age-well-after-cheating-scandal/)
Huffman also has an old tweet she probably regrets: "What are your best 'hacks' for the back-to-school season?" (https://twitter.com/FelicityHuffman/status/768888270772064256)
Huffman's parenting blog warned teens they'd "get busted" for trying to be "sneaky" (https://people.com/parents/felicity-huffman-parenting-blog-teens-college-entrance-cheating-scandal/)

Why is the Lori Loughlin-Felicity Huffman college admissions scandal so fun? (https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/why-the-college-cheating-scandal-involving-felicity-huffman-and-lori-loughlin-is-so-horrifying-and-so-fun.html)

"I know that the people involved in this debacle are real people, with real emotions, caught up in a mortifying scandal that has also humiliated their children," says Willa Paskin of the Fuller House star and the Desperate Housewives alum indictment for college admissions fraud. "But have you scoped the details on this thing??? The FBI called this Operation Varsity Blues because they, too, are apparently ’90s nostalgists. The scheme involved, at some point, photoshopping the prospective students’ heads onto the bodies of other student athletes. Huffman used the phrase 'ruh roh' in this context: 'Ruh Ro! Looks like (my daughter’s high school) wants to provide own proctor.' At least one of the admitted students is already a paid Instagram influencer. This is a genuine scandal—a big, messy to-do and a disgrace—but it also, thankfully, euphorically, does not involve the grifts of our commander in chief, nuclear realpolitik, or our dying planet. It is powerfully representative of so much of our national dysfunction, but will not immediately result in the death of democracy or any other human beings. In contemporary America, I believe this is what passes for a lark."

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Lori Loughlin reportedly hasn't been arrested yet, is seeking "safe passage" to Los Angeles (https://theblast.com/lori-loughlin-flying-canada-los-angeles-safe-passage-criminal-case/)
"Aunt Becky's" indictment inspires a bunch of Full House memes (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michaelblackmon/lori-loughlin-felicity-huffman-memes-jokes-college-scam)
Loughlin deletes her social media accounts following indictment (https://www.eonline.com/news/1022905/lori-loughlin-deletes-her-social-media-accounts-after-being-charged-in-college-admission-scandal)
Olivia Jade Giannulli, one of Loughlin's "influencer" daughters, has 1.9 million YouTube subscribers and 1.3 million Instagram followers (https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/college-admissions-scandal-lori-loughlin-daughters-olivia-jade-isabella-rose-influencers.html)

Aunt Becky, no!

What a shame... ohno:

Aunt Becky, no!

But just think of the great education Nicky and Alex are getting.

These are the same super rich celebrities that preach to you and tell you have to live your life. :lol:

Bob Saget was on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. I was really hoping he’d “go there”, even though I knew he wouldn’t.

Has anybody else noticed (https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/03/226811/lori-loughlin-full-house-scam-school-clip) that the episode (https://therealfullhousereviewed.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/season-6-episode-15-be-true-to-your-preschool/) "Be True to Your Pre-School" (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x595a9g), where Jesse and Becky lie (https://theweek.com/speedreads/828811/classic-episode-full-house-lori-loughlins-aunt-becky-refused-play-along-school-admissions-scam) about their sons' academic skills to get them into a prestigious pre-school, is now an awful case of life imitating art (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FunnyAneurysmMoment/LiveActionTV)!?

It sounds like something characters would do in a TV show anyway. Have you noticed how parents in TV shows never send their kids to public schools? Seems like it would be a good way to avoid stress and spending thousands of dollars, but then characters in modern TV shows always seem to be upper-middle class too. Heaven forbid kids go to *gasp* public school.....

But just think of the great education Nicky and Alex are getting.
:lol:

Whoa Baby, Aunt Becky in Trouble?

Have Mercy

Ya know, not tryin' to be funny, but I was thinkin' what would Uncle Jesse, Danny, Joey, DJ, Stephanie, Michelle, Gia and Kimmy say about this?

Hope Lori & Felicity will soon to be bailed out

Hope Lori & Felicity will soon to be bailed out

Felicity already got bailed out.

Will the Lori Loughlin opening credit scenes (e.g. her smelling flowers in Season 4) be removed from the reruns?

Jimmy Kimmel doesn't bring up Lori Loughlin's indictment while interviewing her Full House co-star Bob Saget (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/what-scandal-lori-loughlin-never-mentioned-as-jimmy-kimmel-interviews-full-house-co-star-bob-saget)

Kimmel joked in his opening monologue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkt2JUfdRE) about the "Operation Varsity Blues" college admissions bribery scandal that led to Loughlin and Felicity Huffman's indictment on Tuesday. But the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host chose not to address the scandal when Loughlin's Full House and Fuller House co-star Bob Saget was Kimmel's first guest on Tuesday, as Fox News points out, adding that Saget's visit appears to have been a coincidence. Loughlin has never been a guest (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521753/#self) on Kimmel's show, while Huffman was a guest twice, in 2006 and 2007, according to IMDb. (Huffman's husband, William H. Macy -- who wasn't indicted -- also has appeared on Kimmel's show twice, in 2003 and 2012.)

Jimmy Kimmel doesn't bring up Lori Loughlin's indictment while interviewing her Full House co-star Bob Saget (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/what-scandal-lori-loughlin-never-mentioned-as-jimmy-kimmel-interviews-full-house-co-star-bob-saget)

Kimmel joked in his opening monologue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkt2JUfdRE) about the "Operation Varsity Blues" college admissions bribery scandal that led to Loughlin and Felicity Huffman's indictment on Tuesday. But the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host chose not to address the scandal when Loughlin's Full House and Fuller House co-star Bob Saget was Kimmel's first guest on Tuesday, as Fox News points out, adding that Saget's visit appears to have been a coincidence. Loughlin has never been a guest (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521753/#self) on Kimmel's show, while Huffman was a guest twice, in 2006 and 2007, according to IMDb. (Huffman's husband, William H. Macy -- who wasn't indicted -- also has appeared on Kimmel's show twice, in 2003 and 2012.)

https://i.imgur.com/cJIT1Gj.jpg

Lori Loughlin surrenders to FBI after her indictment in college admissions cheating case (https://variety.com/2019/film/news/lori-loughlin-college-admissions-scam-1203162421/)

The Full House alum is scheduled to appear in a federal Los Angeles courtroom at 2 p.m. PT. Loughlin was in Canada when she was indicted yesterday. ALSO: Felicity Huffman deletes Instagram post about being a "good enough mom." (https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/felicity-huffman-deletes-post-about-being-good-enough-amid-scandal/)

Lori Loughlin's Fuller House co-stars decline to talk about her arrest (https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/13/john-stamos-jodie-sweetin-full-house-reaction-lori-loughlin-indictment-college-bribery/)

TMZ caught up with Full House and Fuller House's John Stamos and, separately, Jodie Sweetin soon after the news of their co-star's alleged crime broke. Both declined to comment. Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel opted not to bring up Loughlin's indictment last night while interviewing Bob Saget (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/what-scandal-lori-loughlin-never-mentioned-as-jimmy-kimmel-interviews-full-house-co-star-bob-saget).

Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman's mugshots are unlikely to be released (https://www.thewrap.com/felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin-mugshot-probably-not-released)

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice told The Wrap that mug shots are only released by the U.S. Marshals “under very specific circumstances that do not apply here," and that the ones for Huffman and Loughlin will not be released.

Lori Loughlin to be released on $1 million bail -- she'll be allowed to travel to Canada to film her TV projects (https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lori-loughlin-bail-admissions-scandal-1203162547/)

The Full House alum made her first appearance in federal court this afternoon, where a judge set her bail at $1 million, the same as husband Mossimo Giannulli. The judge wanted to confiscate Loughlin's passport, but relented due to her TV commitments in Canada. Loughlin's attorney says under contract to film two projects in Vancouver April and May, as well as a series slated to begin shooting July. (Loughlin's Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Calls_the_Heart) films in Vancouver.)

Will the Lori Loughlin opening credit scenes (e.g. her smelling flowers in Season 4) be removed from the reruns?

That was only used in the extended intro when the entire cast appears. Once in seasons 1 and 2, and twice in 3. It wasn't used at all in season 4 of Fuller House.

Lori Laughlin's daughter was aboard USC's Board of Trustees chairman Rick Caruso's yacht when the scandal broke. Obviously she was invited on the yacht in case it broke down so she could use her rowing expertise to row the yacht to shore.

The Full House alum made her first appearance in federal court this afternoon, where a judge set her bail at $1 million, the same as husband Mossimo Giannulli. The judge wanted to confiscate Loughlin's passport, but relented due to her TV commitments in Canada. Loughlin's attorney says under contract to film two projects in Vancouver April and May, as well as a series slated to begin shooting July. (Loughlin's Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Calls_the_Heart) films in Vancouver.)[/QUOTE]

I wonder if the Hallmark Channel will drop Lori. I wouldn't want a criminal among my cast.

The Full House alum made her first appearance in federal court this afternoon, where a judge set her bail at $1 million, the same as husband Mossimo Giannulli. The judge wanted to confiscate Loughlin's passport, but relented due to her TV commitments in Canada. Loughlin's attorney says under contract to film two projects in Vancouver April and May, as well as a series slated to begin shooting July. (Loughlin's Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Calls_the_Heart) films in Vancouver.)

I wonder if the Hallmark Channel will drop Lori. I wouldn't want a criminal among my cast.[/QUOTE]
Hallmark has dropped her, fired from all their productions. Tomorrow's new episode of When Calls the Heart has also been pulled, the show will be retooled without Lori.

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I wonder if the Hallmark Channel will drop Lori. I wouldn't want a criminal among my cast.
Hallmark has dropped her, fired from all their productions. Tomorrow's new episode of When Calls the Heart has also been pulled, the show will be retooled without Lori.[/QUOTE]

Lori Loughlin discussed choosing TV roles with an eye towards morals and ethics in a newly resurfaced interview (http://toofab.com/2019/03/21/lori-loughlin-interview-morals-ethics-college-admissions/)

Watch the indicted former When Calls the Heart star tell the Christian Broadcasting Network about her career choices in "an industry that crosses the line morally and ethically in so many ways."

Lori Loughlin cheating scandal and When Calls the Heart firing reveals that scripted cable is alive and well (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/20/lori-loughlin-scandal-highlights-closely-kept-secret-some-basic-cable-is-alive-well/)

The Hallmark Channel series has a devoted fanbase called "Hearties," who had to grapple last week with Loughlin's abrupt firing following her college cheating indictment. "Such hardcore devotion may surprise even avid TV viewers, who are not likely to pay much attention to a wholesome period series airing on a basic-cable network far up the dial," says Steven Zeitchik. "But the loyalty demonstrates how even in this age of streaming, when the latest Netflix black comedy is endlessly hashed out by upscale audiences on Twitter, basic cable has not disappeared (or gone exclusively with its cheaply produced bread-and-butter of reality television). In some ways, in fact, scripted cable is stronger than it has been in years. As many industry figures and pundits lament the scourge of cord-cutting — in which viewers are abandoning cable subscriptions because they do not care enough about the shows being offered to pay for them — the Hearties and the show they love refute the point. The fans are expressing a level of interest that will keep them paying their Comcast, Charter and DirecTV bills for years to come."

What was your reaction (https://www.reddit.com/r/fullhouse/comments/13ulorc/what_was_your_reaction_when_you_first_found_out/) when you first found out Lori Loughlin cheated her way into getting her daughter into college?

^^^ I was surprised, but I never held it against as much as so many other people chose to. She wanted the best for her kids and obviously was willing to do whatever it took for her kids to have it.

God bless you and Lori and her family always!!!

Holly

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From starring with a young Keanu Reeves to becoming the most famous aunt on TV, Lori Loughlin became a household name in the 80's and 90's. She married a fashion designer and preached wholesome values while their family lived the high life, but that picture perfect image would be shattered (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zxmMjEsRFg) by a federal investigation known as Operation Varsity Blues. This is the story of the most famous family involved in the largest college admissions scam.

VIDEO CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro
3:13 Chapter 1: The Perfect Family
16:54 Chapter 2: "But Why Are You White?"
25:54 Chapter 3: Operation Varsity Blues

What was your reaction (https://www.reddit.com/r/fullhouse/comments/13ulorc/what_was_your_reaction_when_you_first_found_out/) when you first found out Lori Loughlin cheated her way into getting her daughter into collage?

Who's Lori Laughlin?? :lol: No, I knew who she was, but hadn't seen her in years. She and her husband are so rich, why did they need to "cheat" to get her daughter in to an exclusive school? Just make a "donation!" I mostly think the whole story was overblown. Rich kids are always going to be able to get in to expensive schools.

Who's Lori Laughlin?? :lol: No, I knew who she was, but hadn't seen her in years. She and her husband are so rich, why did they need to "cheat" to get her daughter in to an exclusive school? Just make a "donation!" I mostly think the whole story was overblown. Rich kids are always going to be able to get in to expensive schools.

I also thought the Lori Loughlin College Admissions scandal was overblown. It wasn't like Lori was a Drug Queenpin, a child molester or a Murderer, she just cheated to get her daughters enrolled in College. Luckily, Lori is being forgiven and is even getting Hallmark Movies back. :) I remember a Lori Loughlin Fan asking something like,"Will Lori play herself in the Lori Loughlin College Admissions Scandal Movie? :lol::crazy:

Lori Loughlin Speaks Out Following Varsity Blues Scandal: “You Can’t Hang on to Negativity. Life’s Too Short”
by Kevin Dolak
April 26, 2024


Five years after the sensational college admission scandal that landed her in federal prison for nearly two months, Lori Loughlin is following up her reemergence on television with her first major magazine interview since she was at the center of the national controversy.

Loughlin, 59, appears on the cover of the latest issue of First for Women and, in the accompanying article, she discusses her life in 2024 without directly addressing the scandal.

“Every day, we’re met with different obstacles. But, for me, it’s like that song says, ‘I get knocked down, but I get up again,'” she says. “Nobody said life was going to be a breeze; we all make mistakes, but the important thing is to persevere.”




“I try to be a forgiving person. I’m not one to hold onto stuff. Stuff happens to everyone. We’ve all been in positions to ask for forgiveness but to ask for it, you have to learn and know how to give forgiveness, too,” she says while discussing the power of moving on.

“My family wasn’t one to hold grudges,” she adds. “I didn’t grow up in a household where if you made a mistake, you weren’t forgiven. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. So I was always told to let stuff go. And I think for your own health, you have to let things go, because you can’t hang on to negativity. Life’s too short.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lori-loughlin-interview-after-college-admissions-scandal-1235882449/

What was your reaction (https://www.reddit.com/r/fullhouse/comments/13ulorc/what_was_your_reaction_when_you_first_found_out/) when you first found out Lori Loughlin cheated her way into getting her daughter into collage?

That she thought her kids were too stupid to make it on their own.

The Hits Kept Coming For Lori Loughlin's Daughter Olivia Jade After College Scam (https://www.nickiswift.com/2133058/tragedy-lori-loughlin-daughter-olivia-jade-after-college-admissions-scandal/)

Olivia Jade found herself on the wrong end of celebrity gossip when the college scandal hit, and unfortunately, that was just the start of her difficulties.