Any feelings on Lori Loughlin's sentence (2 months) for trying to bribe her kid's way into college?

I haven’t read what they were actually found guilty of. I know they got a plea deal. Plea deals are notoriously light and it saves the expense and labor of a trial. I hate that the rich get away with this crap but it’s not the first time and won’t be the last time that this happens.

Sad for the kid who missed out on the spot at that college because it went to the undeserving child of Lori Loughlin. Sad for the kid who worked their butt off in rowing and it went to a girl who was not a rower at all. I think justice would be served if the child were kicked out of college. I hate that this rich brat gets the college spot and meanwhile, is vapid and not worthy. Is Lori Loughlin’s daughter the one with the blog, posting videos of herself, partying?

Justice also is that hopefully, Lori Loughlin won’t get any more acting roles. Hopefully she can’t write a book about this and profit that way.

@jca2 You said it better than I could have. One additional thing to mention is that if the kid that was bumped went to their 2nd choice school, then they bumped someone from that school, and so on, in a domino effect of reducing opportunities for kids more deserving than Lori’s daughter. IMO reducing the opportunities of kids is a pretty heinous crime.

I could be wrong but she looks like a real b to me. Like she thinks she can get away with anything.

Too light a sentence, given that it will be minimum security.Should keep her behind bars for the holidays.

If she goes in now she’ll be out in time for pumpkin spice lattes before Thanksgiving.

I think her sentence is not appropriate for the severity of her crime. She got off too light.

Affluenza with simultaneous white privilege.
Meanwhile, black people get life sentences for attempted theft of hedge trimmers.

Waste of resources. Fine her ass; hit her in the pocketbook. And agree with @ragingloli. The criminal justice system is broken.

Money is power. And a lot of money is a lot of power. In this case it wasn’t quite powerful enough to buy the best defense lawyers. Perhaps a 5 million dollar bribe to the university would have helped.

She was given two months in prison, a $150,000 fine, and 100 hours of community service.

Is she going to prison now during covid? That would make me really nervous.

What bothers me most about it is stories of Black women using someone else’s address to get their kids into better K-12 public schools and getting 3 years in jail! Women who do this shouldn’t get any time in jail period.

Lori Laughlin should probably get more time, but what I’m interested in knowing also is did the person at the school who accepted the money get jail time? He/she really is horrible.

If Lori had given a donation to a new building on campus and her daughter was let into the school would it have been legal?

Her REAL crime was public exposure of the way things ACTUALLY work. Her crime amounts to one of public urination on the sacred shibboleth of merit.

In the future, I would recommend that to go the legal way to cheat the system, and hire a world class tutor. Poor kids can’t fight that, for now. Raises the competitive average for all the hard working students.

A mother got years in prison for lying about the district she lived in, in order for her child to get into a better school to get a better education. And she got years in jail. Yet Lori gets 2 months in jail. What the hell.

@rockfan Maybe Lori Loughlin bribed someone to take it easy on her?

She should have had more, like 6 months at least.

@JLeslie and @rockfan: The black mom who got jail time also sold cocaine, so comparing her to Lori Loughlin is like apples and oranges. I’m not defending Lori Loughlin (as you can read above I wish she got more time) but there’s more to the story of the black mom then “she got 3 years in jail for sending her kids to another district.”

@jca2 That makes me feel better. I didn’t remember that, but now that you write it I vaguely remember there was more to the story.

I don’t care enough to have opinion one way or the other.

I think this entire thing was entirely one-sided. I’ll give you that bribing coaches and the university to get your kid into college is not a good thing. But the coaches and the university have established that as an unofficial action over the years. So we go after the ones providing the money, but leave the ones that sell the influence alone? If they were above board, it could never have happened in the first place. It is the university that set up the conditions that reward the wealthy and screw the less fortunate. And meanwhile, we still give millions of dollars in federal funding to the university and don’t hold them accountable. I think the fair thing would be to have them return all the money they have taken in bribes over the years so it can go back into a fund for all universities and they get no federal funding for at least 2 years and don’t get expanded funding after that to make up for lost time. That would send a really sharp message to all universities that this sort of thing is not going to be accepted.

@seawulf575: A bunch of other people were involved and charged, not just the parents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal

@jca2 Thanks. But the question still remains…what happened to all the money? And the universities themselves were not indicted in any of the actions, though they were named in several civil law suits. They took the action of firing the coaches, etc to show they weren’t supporting the scams, but in the end, they often took endowments from the ones that were indicted. So their actions amount to throwing the coaches under the bus and letting them hold all the blame. In my mind that equates to a board of directors of a big corporation passing rules and then, when those rules cause problems, holding those that followed those rules accountable for the negative.

@seawulf575 But the colleges weren’t beneficiaries of the fraud; the bribes and payments went to Singer, the fraud organizer, and his supposed “charity”, or to the coaches or administrators. They didn’t get endowments.

@zenvelo In some cases, it looks like Singer brokered deals with coaches etc. But the schools were not ignorant of what was going on and actively sought the wealthy parents. There is a lot more to this than meets the eye and as I say, the coaches and test administrators are being thrown out as sacrificial lambs.

There’s no point in being indignant over it. Capitalism—EVERYTHING’s for sale.