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Lori Loughlin is reportedly afraid of contracting coronavirus while she’s serving her prison sentence from the college admissions scandal, according to Fox News.
What’s going on?
- Loughlin is reportedly “scared to death of catching COVID-19, as the virus is ravaging the federal prisons in California,” an unnamed source told Us Weekly magazine.
- An inside source told Us Weekly: “She’s met with the official who’s preparing her sentencing report, which the judge will use for guidance as to how long she’ll serve.”
What happened with the scandal
- Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, recently pleaded guilty in the college admisssions scandal. The couple faced allegations of paying $500,000 in bribes so that their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, would be crew recruits for the University of Southern California. The two girls had never participated in crew before applying for the school. Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded not guilty.
- Loughlin and Giannulli maintained their innocence for more than an entire year.
- But the couple pleaded guilty in May, agreeing to serve time in prison.
- Assuming the judge accepts their plea deal later this summer, Loughlin will be sentenced to two months in prison, a $150,000 fine and two years of supervised released with 100 hours of community service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.
- Giannulli will be sentenced to five months in prison, a $250,000 fine and two years supervised release with 250 hours of community service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.