Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to bribing their daughters' way into college. lori loughlin's husband, mossimo giannulli, sentenced to 5 months in prison in college admissions scandal case Following Gorton's acceptance of his plea deal, Giannulli addressed the court. After being implicated in the nation’s largest college admissions prosecution, Lori Loughlin resigned from her exclusive country club, downsized from her expansive Bel Air estate, and saw her acting career crater. The scandal has forced change to admissions rules, yet some observers say the shifts weren’t sweeping enough.By Hollywood standards, the downfall had already been steep. The University of California, which had already been under pressure to stop requiring the tests, “There’s not very many examples of colleges and universities moving to test-optional that then move right back,” said Jonathan Burdick, the vice provost for enrollment at Cornell University, adding that he expected to see “a real reset” on the use of standardized tests.Ms. A Boston judge sentenced Huffman to two weeks behind bars on... Loughlin, who has acknowledged conspiring to pass her daughters off as rowers so they would be admitted to the University of Southern California, tearfully apologized. Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories? Paparazzi have followed her wherever she goes,” the lawyer groused.“No other defendant has landed in the cross hairs of this scandal with anything approaching the level she has,” he said.“All of that pales in comparison to the pain she feels her daughters have endured. Her lawyers have asked that she be sent to Victorville Camp, the low-security section of a larger federal lockup in San Bernadino County, near her home.The couple were accused of paying $500,000 to scheme mastermind William “Rick” Singer to falsely portray their daughters, social media “influencer” Olivia Jade Giannulli, 20, and Isabella Rose Giannulli, 21, as talented rowing crew athletes — even though neither of them ever participated in the sport.As part of the pair’s sentences, Loughlin — an actress best known for portraying the wholesome “Aunt Becky” on the sitcom “Full House” from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s — will pay a $150,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service.The Italian-born Giannulli — founder of the multimillion-dollar clothing brand Mossimo — will pay a $250,000 fine and serve 250 hours of community service.Loughlin’s lawyer insisted she has accepted responsibility and merely wanted for her daughters what she herself could not afford as a working-class kid.But a federal prosecutor slammed Loughlin, who he said “opted to cheat” to get the daughters into college because the advantages of being merely rich and famous “were not enough.”The celebrity couple’s sentencings bring to a close the celebrity couple’s galling, made-for-TV legal drama, in which they’d faced a decade or more in prison had they lost at trial.Loughlin and Giannulli were among the highest-profile defendants in the scam, in which some 30 prominent parents have pleaded guilty to paying hefty bribes for the fake test scores and athletic credentials their undeserving kids needed to get into desirable colleges.Until their guilty pleas, Loughlin and Giannulli had continued to insist that they believed the payments — which were funneled through a sham charity operated by Singer — were legitimate donations to USC.Singer had been prepared to testify against Loughlin and Giannulli had they taken the case to trial.But the list of potential witnesses against them was lengthy.Prosecutors have accused Giannulli and Loughlin of even repeatedly “Giannulli also bluntly stated that [Olivia Jade] was a coxswain,” prosecutors alleged earlier this week.The pair is worth an estimated $100 million — with some $70 million of that credited to Mossimo’s lucrative licensing agreement with Target stores.Still, they had been downscaling of late. Others put in place safeguards to ensure that students admitted as athletes are, in fact, athletes.The case also stirred conversations around the many advantages wealthy students enjoy in admission to selective schools, including help from high-priced tutors and coaches, opportunities to excel in sports that provide a leg up in admissions, preference given to legacy applicants, and even the option of large donations that can buy access.For all of the changes, however, the nation’s largest college admissions prosecution, which federal law enforcement authorities called Operation Varsity Blues, did not spur as sweeping an overhaul to the admissions system at elite schools as some had expected.“In some ways, the bad news about the Varsity Blues scandal was that it was so extreme, it enabled people to think it was ‘them’ — and not us,” said Richard Weissbourd, a senior lecturer on education at Harvard who leads a national effort to reform college admissions as part of the More than 50 people were charged in the case, which involved cheating on admissions tests and bribes to college coaches to falsely designate students as athletic recruits.