John Stamos says Lori Loughlin's role in admissions scandal was minor

John Stamos claims Lori Loughlin only had minor role in college admissions scandal… and says she served her time: ‘She went to f***ing jail’

John Stamos defended his former Full House costar Lori Loughlin by claiming she was just a peripheral part of the college admissions scandal in a recent podcast chat.

The 59-year-old actor claimed that Loughlin, 58, was ‘in the way background’ of the scandal in his chat from earlier this week with Dax Shepard for his Armchair Expert podcast.

Stamos also claimed Loughlin had been punished enough for her crimes after she served a prison sentence. 

Standing up for her: John Stamos, 59, defended Lori Loughlin, 58, on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast earlier this week, claiming she was a minor player in the Varsity Blues scandal; seen in 2016

Stamos and Shepard appeared to be on the same page about Loughlin, as the former Beach Boys guest referenced Shepard’s own complicated feelings about the disgraced actress and how he ‘said some really nice stuff about her.’

‘We talked last night about you. It was something that you were saying about how you hate when people bring her up because if you defend her then people get mad,’ Stamos said. ‘If you don’t defend her, then you feel bad because she’s a great person.’ 

Although Stamos has previously been tight-lipped about Loughlin’s crimes, which earned her a two-month prison sentence in late 2020, he was more forthcoming now with her permission.

‘I am going to say this, and she said I could. She wasn’t really the architect of any of it — she was in the way background,’ he claimed. ‘She didn’t know what was going on.’

Just a pawn? ‘I am going to say this, and she said I could. She wasn’t really the architect of any of it — she was in the way background,’ he claimed. ‘She didn’t know what was going on.’; Full House publicity photo from 1993

Enough: He also said she deserved a break after serving her time. ‘She also paid a lot of money. She set up a college fund for kids and she went to f***ing jail, man’; pictured in 2018

Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Gianulli were indicted in March 2019 on bribery charges.

She eventually pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in May of the following year, while her husband pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud.

She was fined $150,000 for the crime and was forced to complete 100 hours of community service, in addition to serving two months behind bars.

In his interview, Stamos said that the felon’s punishment was reason enough for people to give her a break now.

‘She also paid a lot of money. She set up a college fund for kids and she went to f***ing jail, man,’ he added.

Making amends: Loughlin went to prison for two months and paid $150K in fines while doing 100 hours of community service as punishment

As part of their scheme to get their daughters into college, Loughlin and Gianulli paid $500,000 to William Rick Singer to help create fake résumés for daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella into the University of Southern California as part of the rowing team, though neither were rowers or had any experience with the sport.

Prosecutors said they posed their daughters on rowing equipment, though Olivia and Isabella allegedly did not understand the scheme to get them into college under false pretenses. 

Although prosectors produced evidence showing that Olivia had been copied on several emails regarding the scam, she was never charged for it.

Family: She paid $500K to get daughters Olivia and Isabella into USC on false pretenses. Olivia was copied on scam-related emails but was never charged; (L–R) Olivia, Lori and Isabella in 2019

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