Lori Loughlin released from California prison as another college scam mom told she can’t go
College admissions cheater Lori Loughlin reportedly had a tearful reunion with her daughters after leaving a federal prison Monday in Dublin, Calif., where another Varsity Blues alum was told she can’t leave until the New Year.
Loughlin, 56, is back home in Los Angeles after serving two months in prison for paying $500,000 in bribes to get her girls accepted into the University of Southern California as bogus crew recruits.
Her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, 57, is in a federal prison in Lompoc, near Santa Barbara, Calif., and won’t be out until April 17.
Both parents were caught up in the Boston-based Varsity Blues college scam that netted about 60 mostly parents with about a dozen still preparing to take the case to court.
One parent already locked up in the same prison Loughlin just left once again had her appeal for an early release rejected. A Boston judge said “the fourth motion of defendant Elizabeth Henriquez … for compassionate release based upon concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic” was denied.
Henriquez and her husband, Manuel Henriquez, pleaded guilty to paying a $400,000 bribe to get their daughters into Georgetown University’s tennis program and cheating five times on college entrance exams.
Manuel Henriquez, who led Hercules Capital venture capital headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., was sentenced to six months in prison; his wife was given seven months for what a judge called “despicable” crimes.
Elizabeth Henriquez is not due out until Jan. 7, records show.The judge added in her latest bid for release that her “underlying health condition does not place her at a higher risk for complications due to COVID-19 … (and) that the Bureau of Prisons has taken extraordinary steps to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in FCI Dublin.”
Loughlin has agreed to pay a $150,000 fine along with two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service.
The Dublin lockup is where fellow Varsity Blues college scam actress Felicity Huffman served — but for less than two weeks, well before the pandemic hit. And she started her community service also before the coronavirus swept across the world.
Loughlin was teary-eyed in August when she admitted her “awful decision” to pay bribes to win two spots into USC for her daughters as fake crew recruits. Boston U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton ripped her for having the “gall” and “avarice” to cheat, robbing other deserving kids from being accepted.
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