Lori Loughlin and her defense team will appear in court twice before March, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s office.
The dates: Loughlin and her defense team will have two status conferences in the next two months. Here are the dates:
- Jan. 17: She will have a status conference before Magistrate Judge Kelly at 11 a.m. She is not required to attend.
- Feb. 27: She will have a status conference before Judge Gorton at 11 a.m. She is not required to attend.
Context: Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes so that their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, could be crew team recruits for the University of Southern California.
- The couple are separately and specifically charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud; conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery; and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
- The couple pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Last appearance: Loughlin’s team previously appeared in court on Oct. 22, 2019, after she was charged with a third indictment. She pleaded not guilty.
She was slapped with an additional charge of a conspiracy county, per the Deseret News.
Trial date: It’s unclear when Loughlin’s trial will begin. That’s assuming she doesn’t change her plea as several other parents have done.
- Utah criminal defense lawyer Greg Skordas told the Deseret News the trial would only last three to four days.
- “This isn’t a difficult case for either side,” Skordas told the Deseret News. “The facts are fairly straightforward. It’s going to come down to what was in the mindset of the defendant. What was she doing? What was she thinking? What was she aware of? And why did she do it?”