Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli is under home confinement after being released from prison, according to the Associated Press.
Giannulli had been serving a five-month sentence at the federal facility in Lompoc, Calif. for his role in the college admissions scandal, which began last November. He and wife Lori Loughlin pled guilty last year to paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California. However, Loughlin only spent two months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. and was released this past December.
Beginning home confinement on Friday, Giannulli is expected to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, which records show will end in two weeks.
In January, he requested an early release but was denied because his case did not meet the extraordinary circumstances required. At the time, his attorneys noted that he had been placed in isolation for nearly two months because the...
Giannulli had been serving a five-month sentence at the federal facility in Lompoc, Calif. for his role in the college admissions scandal, which began last November. He and wife Lori Loughlin pled guilty last year to paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California. However, Loughlin only spent two months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. and was released this past December.
Beginning home confinement on Friday, Giannulli is expected to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, which records show will end in two weeks.
In January, he requested an early release but was denied because his case did not meet the extraordinary circumstances required. At the time, his attorneys noted that he had been placed in isolation for nearly two months because the...
- 4/3/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: ‘Operation Varsity Blues’/Netflix In a period where we have constant, unrestricted access to almost every major news story in real-time, documentary films can start to feel irrelevant. Especially in the case of the Lori Loughlin-Felicity Huffman college admissions scandal. I’ll be honest, the news reports were thorough on this story when it dropped back in 2019. I thought that there was no more left to learn, but then I watched ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ on Netflix. If you hadn’t already guessed by now, I had very low expectations of this film. I was suspicious as to how much new information it had on the admissions scandal. Netflix understood the way the case had been covered in the media, so they opted for a different angle: Rick Singer. Related article: The Complete List of 2021 Oscar Nominations – Celebrations, Surprises & Snubs | The Show Must Go On Related article: ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier...
- 3/22/2021
- by Caroline Adamec
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Image Source: Getty / Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe
Neflix's Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal has further exposed the largest college admissions scandal to date, bringing attention to the pervasive nature of how rich, primarily white parents schemed a system that was already skewed in favor of their children. Education is perceived as the great equalizer within society, but Rick Singer's "side door" for the wealthy serves as another example of how money and power create more inequities on an already unlevel playing field.
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal shines a harsh light on Singer (played by Matthew Modine). The mastermind and orchestrator of the scheme, Singer networked with parents who were willing to do anything to get their children into top-notch colleges and universities. In a press release, writer and producer Jon Karmen stated, "It was interesting to learn how Singer would work with these parents.
Neflix's Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal has further exposed the largest college admissions scandal to date, bringing attention to the pervasive nature of how rich, primarily white parents schemed a system that was already skewed in favor of their children. Education is perceived as the great equalizer within society, but Rick Singer's "side door" for the wealthy serves as another example of how money and power create more inequities on an already unlevel playing field.
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal shines a harsh light on Singer (played by Matthew Modine). The mastermind and orchestrator of the scheme, Singer networked with parents who were willing to do anything to get their children into top-notch colleges and universities. In a press release, writer and producer Jon Karmen stated, "It was interesting to learn how Singer would work with these parents.
- 3/20/2021
- by Ralinda Watts
- Popsugar.com
Rick Singer, the man who was behind the 2019 college admissions cheating scandal that netted more than $25 million in bribes, has pled guilty to his role in the racketeering scheme, but has yet to be tried or convicted of the charges.
Netflix’s new docudrama “Operation Varsity Blues” dives into Singer’s back story and how he created the scheme. It also features dramatization scenes, starring Matthew Modine as Singer, that recreates some very revealing of phone conversations the FBI recorded after tapping his phone.
Notable participants in the scheme who sent money to Singer to use to bribe college officials in order to get their under-qualified kids into elite schools, including actresses Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannuli, Tpg Capital executive Bill McGlashan and Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janvas have all been sentenced.
But still, 60 year-old Singer remains very much a free man and is out and...
Netflix’s new docudrama “Operation Varsity Blues” dives into Singer’s back story and how he created the scheme. It also features dramatization scenes, starring Matthew Modine as Singer, that recreates some very revealing of phone conversations the FBI recorded after tapping his phone.
Notable participants in the scheme who sent money to Singer to use to bribe college officials in order to get their under-qualified kids into elite schools, including actresses Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannuli, Tpg Capital executive Bill McGlashan and Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janvas have all been sentenced.
But still, 60 year-old Singer remains very much a free man and is out and...
- 3/18/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
Netflix’s new documentary “Operation Varsity Blues” is a dramatized look inside the 2019 college admissions cheating scandal that rocked elite universities and Hollywood, and it gives viewers a better understanding of William “Rick” Singer, the college coach who orchestrated the entire racketeering ring.
Singer ran a fraudulent education nonprofit called The Key which he would use to funnel donations from wealthy clients to the staff at elite universities like Harvard, Yale, and USC as bribes in exchange for admission or spots on athletic teams. Singer brags in the film that he’s created over 760 of these “side doors,” as he called them. One of Singer’s frequent tactics was photoshopping photos to make students who’d never played a sport look like star high school athletes in order to get them accepted on athletics scholarships.
Between 2011 and 2018, Singer accumulated roughly $25 million in bribes.
Singer is cooperating with the FBI but...
Singer ran a fraudulent education nonprofit called The Key which he would use to funnel donations from wealthy clients to the staff at elite universities like Harvard, Yale, and USC as bribes in exchange for admission or spots on athletic teams. Singer brags in the film that he’s created over 760 of these “side doors,” as he called them. One of Singer’s frequent tactics was photoshopping photos to make students who’d never played a sport look like star high school athletes in order to get them accepted on athletics scholarships.
Between 2011 and 2018, Singer accumulated roughly $25 million in bribes.
Singer is cooperating with the FBI but...
- 3/18/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
If you knew Rick Singer prior to 2019, chances are good that you worked for a prestigious university or were a very, very wealthy parent. The tall man with the gray Frankenstein’s-monster haircut ran a consulting and college-counseling business called “The Key”; having been an actual high school basketball coach in Sacramento, California, he still dressed the part when he’d visit prospective Ivy Leaguers, all the better to radiate tough-love authority. For a fee, he’d help prep kids to get an into the best universities, the Stanfords and...
- 3/17/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Although it is ostensibly a somewhat impartial examination of the scheme employed by Rick Singer to empower his lucrative business of side-stepping the college admissions process to the benefit of the children of his numerous wealthy clients, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, takes the unique approach of interspersing interviews with several of the actual participants of the case (mostly those on the “law and order” side of the aisle) and dramatic recreations of the conversations between Singer and his clients that the FBI obtained through wiretaps to tell the story that, yet again, brought to national attention the inequality between the privileged and those who are not.
Working from a script by Jon Karmen, director Chris Smith expertly illustrates the depths to which Singer went to pull off his colossal grift. It is a testament to the work of both Karmen and Smith that the film is so...
Working from a script by Jon Karmen, director Chris Smith expertly illustrates the depths to which Singer went to pull off his colossal grift. It is a testament to the work of both Karmen and Smith that the film is so...
- 3/17/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
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