Federal prosecutors allege in new court documents that Lori Loughlin may have been in charge of what happened between her family and daughters in the college admissions scandal, USA Today reports.
What’s going on: The U.S. Attorney’s Office summarized conversations between William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind of the college admissions scandal, and the FBI while discussing Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli.
- Singer reportedly admitted to the FBI that Loughlin told her daughters — Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli — that they needed to do better in high school, according to USA Today.
- Loughlin reportedly said this as she was allegedly participating in the college admissions scandal.
- Loughlin and Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes so that their daughters could be crew team recruits for the University of Southern California, according to The Associated Press.
- The U.S. Attorney’s Office attached the letter to a filing from the Loughlin and Giannulli, who accused the federal prosecutors of concealing evidence.
- “Lori Loughlin was in charge and told the couple’s daughters that they needed to do better in high school,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling wrote in the letter, based on conversations with Singer, according to USA Today.
- Singer reportedly told the FBI that a school counselor at the daughters’ high school “could mess things up.”
Flashback: On Monday, Loughlin and Giannulli’s defense team filed a claim in court documents that the judge needed to intervene in the case, according to the Deseret News.
- The motion “claims that prosecutors have refused to turn over exculpatory evidence that appears to show that Loughlin and Giannulli believed their payments to Singer and USC’s athletics department would be used for legitimate purposes,” NBC News reported