College Admission Case: New Charges for Loughlin, Others
A number of parents in the college admissions scandal, including actress Lori Loughlin, were hit with a new grand jury indictment adding a conspiracy to commit bribery charge against them, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The parents, who were all arrested in March in the alleged nationwide bribery scheme, "conspired to commit federal program bribery by bribing employees of the University of Southern California (USC) to facilitate their children's admission," according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
In addition to Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, the parents named in the indictment include Gamal Abdelaziz, Diane Blake, Todd Blake, Elisabeth Kimmell, William McGlashan, Jr., Marci Palatella, John Wilson, Homayoun Zadeh and Robert Zangrillo.
Four parents were also charged with wire fraud in the scheme.
One other parent, John Wilson of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was also charged with bribery connected to his children's admission at Harvard and Stanford, the prosecutors said.
The parents' court dates haven't yet been scheduled in the case, prosecutors said. It wasn't immediately clear how the parents and their lawyers would respond.
Loughlin and Giannulli have previously pleaded not guilty to charges in the sweeping scheme, as have many other parents, though not all.
Actress Felicity Huffman was among those who have pleaded guilty, and she reported to a prison in California last week. Just Monday, four others changed their pleas.
Grand jury charges have previously been added in the case — prosecutors said this is the third "superseding indictment," one which adds new charges to ones filed previously.
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