The actress Lori Loughlin was released from federal prison in Dublin, Calif., on Monday, having completed a two-month sentence for conspiring to pass her daughters off as rowers so they would be admitted to the University of Southern California. Ms. Loughlin, best known for playing Aunt Becky on the 1990s sitcom “Full House,” was among more than three dozen wealthy parents, many of them in Southern California, who were caught up in a sprawling scheme to bribe coaches, test administrators and others to help their children get into college. The ringleader, William Singer, a California college admissions consultant, cooperated with federal investigators to bring charges against his well-heeled clients, as well as a dozen coaches and others. While this system already favored the wealthy, the parents convicted in the admissions case sought to corrupt it further by inflating their children’s test scores or presenting them as accomplished athletes when they in fact were not. Ms. Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, paid $500,000 as part of the scheme.

Source: New York Times December 28, 2020 15:19 UTC