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New details continue to emerge about the alleged college
cheating scheme involving Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

On Tuesday, March 12, E! News obtained court documents which
show that both Huffman and Loughlin have been charged with
conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
The Desperate Housewives alum and the Fuller House star are
among over 40 individuals who have been charged in connection
with the scandal. According to the FBI affidavit, the scheme
involved getting students admitted into elite colleges.

"Beginning in or about 2011, and continuing through the present,
the defendants—principally individuals whose high-school aged
children were applying to college—conspired with others to use
bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate their children's
admission to colleges and universities in the District of
Massachusetts and elsewhere, including Yale University, Stanford
University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern
California, and the University of California – Los Angeles,
among others," the affidavit states.

The same day that the news broke, E! News confirmed that 13
defendants were taken into custody in the Los Angeles area,
including defendant Huffman.

The FBI affidavit states that Huffman and her "spouse," William
H. Macy, made a purported charitable contribution of $15,000 to
participate in the scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. She
"later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for
her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so," the
document reads.

Huffman and Macy are parents to Sofia Grace Macy, 18, and
Georgia Grace Macy, 16.

Macy, who has not been charged, was seated it the gallery in
court on Tuesday afternoon as Huffman faced a judge.

Per the court orders, the Oscar nominee will surrender her
passport and is required to seek pre-trial approval for any
travel.

Huffman was also granted a signature bond of $250,000 and has
been ordered to appear in federal court in Boston on March 29.
The signature bond requires the 56-year-old actress to sign a
promise to return to court, but does not require a deposit of
any cash or property with the court.

While there are many theories as to why Macy has not been
charged in this FBI investigation—code name Operation Varsity
Blues—there's been no official statement from authorities.

New York Law School professor and former prosecutor Rebecca
Roiphe shared one theory with Vulture, stating, "One of the
possibilities is that the husband is far less culpable. Maybe
it's possible that the government has far more evidence than
it's laid out here, and in this evidence, that Huffman played a
far more significant role than her husband."

As for Loughlin, she surrendered to the FBI on Wednesday and was
taken into custody. She was later released on $1 million bond.

Loughlin will be allowed to retain her passport for travel on a
current project in British Columbia, her next court appearance
will be in Boston Federal court on March 29.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts
told E! News that Loughlin had not yet been arrested on Tuesday
morning as she was out of the country. She was contact by
federal authorities to come back and turn herself in. Loughlin's
husband Mossimo Giannulli was arrested Tuesday morning without
incident.

It's noted in the FBI affidavit, "The Guannullis agreed to a pay
bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two
daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team—despite
the fact that they did not participate in crew—thereby
facilitating their admission to USC."

Loughlin and Giannulli have two daughters, Isabella Rose, 20,
and YouTube star Olivia Jade, 19.

Meanwhile, William "Rick" Singer, 58, was charged racketeering
conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud
US and obstruction of justice for his alleged involvement in the
scheme. E! News has confirmed that Singer pled guilty to all
counts on Tuesday.

According to a Tuesday press release, Singer owned and operated
the Edge College & Career Network LLC ("The Key") – a for-profit
college counseling and preparation business – and served as the
CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF) – a non-profit
corporation that he established as a purported charity.

The release stated that between approximately 2011 and February
2019, Singer allegedly "conspired with dozens of parents,
athletic coaches, a university athletics administrator, and
others, to use bribery and other forms of fraud to secure the
admission of students to colleges and universities including
Yale University, Georgetown University, Stanford University, the
University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University,
among others."

https://www.eonline.com/news/1023244/everything-we-know-about- felicity-huffman-and-lori-loughlin-s-bribery-allegations
 

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