Lori Loughlin’s lawyers claim Justice Department is ‘concealing’ evidence that proves she and husband Mossimo Giannulli are innocent in college admissions scandal

Lawyers for Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli claim the Justice Department has failed to turn over evidence in the Operation Varsity Blues case that will prove the celebrity couple are innocent. Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, have pleaded not guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to have their two daughters admitted into the University of Southern California as fake rowing recruits. On Friday, the couple’s attorneys filed a motion in the case asking a judge to force prosecutors to hand over exculpatory evidence that will show Loughlin and Giannulli believed they were making ‘legitimate donations’, rather than bribes, to Rick Singer – the mastermind of the college admissions scheme who ran a nonprofit named Key Worldwide Foundation. The lawyers, led by Sean Berkowitz, are particularly interested in the FBI’s ‘302 Reports’ – a series of statements and interview notes that were taken during the course of the investigation. Lawyers for Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli claim the Justice Department has failed to turn over evidence in the Operation Varsity Blues case that will prove the celebrity couple are innocent. The pair are pictured at a hearing this past summer The motion reads: ‘The Government’s theory in this case is that… Read full this story

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