Posted on 04/18/2020 2:45:46 PM PDT by Conserv
The judge wants answers from the government about "serious and disturbing" claims of misconduct.
Loughlin's attorneys argue federal agents entrapped her and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and that the case should be thrown out.
Loughlin's defense team also claims the prosecution withheld evidence, citing notes of consultant William "Rick" Singer they say prove the government's interference.
Singer is a key witness. "During the course of their investigation of defendants, the government offered Singer the opportunity to cooperate and Singer agreed to a consensual wiretap of his phone," the judge writes.
"Subsequently, he made rehearsed calls to the defendants designed to elicit evidence for use in the government’s prosecution." Singer took notes after the calls, and one in particular is the basis of Loughlin’s complaints of misconduct.
In notes from Oct. 2, 2018, Singer detailed "a troubling conversation," the judge notes, in which "unspecified 'agents' aggressively pressured him and directly instructed him to lie to elicit incriminating information from potential defendants."
The judge continues, "The court considers the allegations in Singer's October notes to be serious and disturbing. While government agents are permitted to coach cooperating witnesses during the course of an investigation, they are not permitted to suborn the commission of a crime."
Loughlin's defense team argues that she and her husband believed they were making a legitimate donation to USC.
"We now know that from the beginning of his cooperation, Singer informed the government that he had told parents that their payments were legitimate donations to university programs — not bribes to benefit corrupt insiders," the defense team wrote in their motion, which has been viewed by Yahoo Entertainment.
"But because those facts would undermine its case, the government became 'loud and abrasive' and browbeat Singer into trying to procure false admissions from parents over the phone."
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Crooked federal agents, surprise, surprise, surprise. NOT
WHERE IS THERE A ‘CRIME’ IN THIS?
I would not care even if they school said “pay us a half a mil and your kid can go here”
Schools are money-making operations.
At worst this is a civil matter, and even then here is no complaint.
I think the govt. found out the husband is a Trump supporter.
and Hillary doesn’t get so much as a parking ticket.
Prosecutors admitted it was a “mistake” not to turn over Singer’s note
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Yeah. A willful mistake.
It is a big deal
when hardly anyone is aware that this occurs
and/because the school denies it occurs to promote a better institutional image and says they approve future students on their merits and not daddy’s checkbook.
Because when you buy your way in maybe it has an effect on how others and businesses begin to view the worth of the degrees granted by rhose schools?? Because if a school lets you buy your way in, they may let you buy your class grades, and then your degree is worthless and everyone else’s are questionable?
maybe?
Start with Hillary, comey, brennan on and on.
she didn’t buy better grades, she bought admission
(theoretically)
Higher grades would be a whole different thing. But even your argument does not change my main point- where is the crime? If the school wants to devalue its worth by selling admission...
So they may not be guilty of any wrongdoing, but victims of corrupt federal workers.
i agree with you! who the hell cares about this.
aand before somebody weeps about the minority kids that did not get a break? Spare me!
When it comes to higher ed, they get all the breaks.
the crime is they advertise they select students one way, based on academics and other experiential criteria, but only to a select few allow them to buy their way in.
(Eye roll) Here we go! Is the judge really going to entertain this?
I thought you couldn’t use uncorroborated accomplice testimony?
If the parents had paid through the right channels, USC would be fine with special treatment for the child of a big donor.
The university is merely pretending to be shocked by this behavior.
THE f.i.b is a complete disgrace.
For decades, the grade transcripts of minority students have been "questionable". Likewise the grades of school athletes, and other "protected/favored groups".
Fraud. Did not the parents or the child sign off on the app saying they were in athletics and other activities they weren’t really doing?
I would not vote to convict anyone arrested by the FBI.
Yet, they can wiretap a president of the US and try to frame him with bought and payed for Russian lies?
How is this different than buying a ‘building’ or lighting the football field to ensure your child is accepted.
AND
Where are all the recipients of the bribes?
Why aren’t they charged and be forced to return the money plus interest?
A BRIBE is a BRIBE is a BRIBE.
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