https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/04/16/dont-do-the-crime/

Lori Loughlin is not taking it well.

Last week, as a part of the college admissions scandal, a federal grand jury hit Loughlin and her husband, fashion mogul Mossimo Giannulli, with a bevy of additional fraud and money laundering charges that each carry possible maximum prison sentences of 20 years.

As the Bay Area News Group’s Martha Ross reported, the couple, married over two decades, are seeing how their alleged efforts to bribe their two daughters’ way into the University of Southern California may have upended the girls’ own nascent careers as well.

Unsurprisingly, the weight of the stress has hit Loughlin hard. She is described as having been “in denial” about her legal situation. “(Loughlin) thought maybe she could skate by,” a source told E! News. “She refused to accept any jail time and thought the DA was bluffing. She was adamant she wouldn’t do any jail time.”

People magazine quoted a source who said Loughlin and Giannulli “decided to roll the dice.” The source added, “And it may have been a bad gamble. Now they’re in worse shape than before.”

“Lori is finally realizing just how serious this is,” the E! News source said. “She is seeing the light that she will do jail time and is freaking out.”

A look at the life of Loughlin before it all came crashing down paints a picture of a beautiful and successful model and actress who married a handsome and successful fashion mogul, had a beautiful and successful family and was living a charmed life.

It raises the question: What was she thinking?

Why allegedly pay $500,000 to get her two daughters into USC when: One, they reportedly didn’t want to go; and two, they certainly didn’t need to go?

Further, the maneuver was obviously illegal and Loughlin must have known that such a caper could be found out and the result would likely be ruination for her girls and her family. Why take that risk? All for bragging rights, as reported? For bragging rights over USC degrees?

Whatever deficiency Loughlin must have felt for not having the girls enrolled in big universities, it is equally complemented by the level of arrogance and greed she displayed by stroking a monstrous check to buy her daughters credentials to which they had no right.

Too often, it seems the rich and famous, on top of the creature comforts and natural advantages their wealth buys them, are able to use their money to garner special legal treatment and purchase influence with impunity. But not this time.

Undoubtedly, this was not the occasion in which Loughlin used the trappings of being Lori Loughlin to circumvent the processes and systems run-of-the-mill Americans must adhere to, and perhaps that’s why she employed such a preposterous ruse in the first place. It was second nature.

Regardless, reality seems to be hitting the actress now, for all the world to see. We can hope that it can serve as a warning for others looking to game the system that justice will find its way to crooks, regardless of their zip code.