August 21, 2020
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced Friday to two months and five months in prison, respectively, for their roles in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal after admitting to paying bribes to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as fake rowing recruits.
August 17, 2020
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, clothing designer Mossimo Giannulli, should get two and five months behind bars, respectively, because their crimes as part of the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal are comparable to those of other defendants who've received similar sentences, prosecutors argued Monday.
August 06, 2020
A Massachusetts federal judge in the "Varsity Blues" case on Thursday delayed the September start of the first group of parents facing trial until February after federal prosecutors and the parents both agreed they wanted the trial date pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 06, 2020
The former CEO of Pacific Investment Management Co. spent the first 29 days of his nine-month prison sentence in the "Varsity Blues" case alone in a 77-square-foot prison cell for nearly 24 hours per day due to the COVID-19 pandemic — a harsh sentence that prosecutors have acknowledged, but have not addressed, according to his latest bid for release into home confinement.
July 29, 2020
A "Varsity Blues" defendant's work to aid disadvantaged children makes him a "hypocrite" for greasing his own kid's way into Georgetown University through bribes, a federal judge said Wednesday, but the charity also helped knock down his prison sentence from potentially over a year to six months.
July 23, 2020
A group of parents ensnared in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal can't split the case into separate trials, a Boston federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying severance would be "gratuitous" and "extremely costly" to the government and the courts.
July 16, 2020
Federal prosecutors and a group of "Varsity Blues" parents want to delay the first trial in the college admissions case from its scheduled September start, citing witnesses who are caught in COVID-19 hotspots and risks that the Boston court will not be ready by then to handle such a large and "high-profile" jury proceeding.
July 15, 2020
Former Canadian Football League player David Sidoo will serve three months behind bars for paying $200,000 to have someone take the SAT for his sons — one of two parents sentenced Wednesday in the high-profile "Varsity Blues" college admissions and testing scandal.
July 14, 2020
A California couple charged in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal pled guilty Tuesday to bribing their daughter's way into the University of Southern California as a fake athletic recruit.
July 13, 2020
A California couple will plead guilty to charges in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, becoming the 27th and 28th parents to admit their guilt in the high-profile case in a pair of plea agreements filed late Friday.