Yesterday, we reported that new court documents showed that Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli told their daughter Olivia Jade to lie to her high school guidance counselor so that their scheme to get her into the University of Southern California would not come to light.

Now, a former federal prosecutor is speaking out to say that Olivia and her older sister Isabella both should have been charged along with their parents, who are due to be sentenced on Friday.

“I would have charged the daughters,” said Neama Rahmani, who tried drug and fraud cases while in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego from 2010 to 2012.

“They were absolutely complicit,” she added, according to Mercury News.

Rahmani went on to say that if prosecutors were reluctant to charge Olivia, 20, and Isabella, 21, because they were minors at the time of their parents’ crimes, they should have at least named the sisters as unindicted co-conspirators. She added that the sisters likely would have been called to testify against their parents, had Loughlin and Giannulli continued fighting the charges against them.

Mark Zaid, a Washington-D.C.-based attorney who represented the children of two parents implicated in Operation Varsity Blues, disagreed with Rahmani. He questioned how much Olivia and Isabella were legally responsible for what their parents did, pointing out that they were teenagers and therefore “malleable” and “impressionable” to what their mom and dad wanted them to do.

Loughlin and Giannulli were accused of paying $500,000 in bribe money to have the two girls admitted to USC as members of the crew team, even though neither girl had ever rowed before. They spent over a year fighting the charges before they finally took a plea deal back in May, and admitted their guilt.

Under the terms of Loughlin’s deal, she would serve two months in prison and two years of supervised release, pay a $150,000 fine, and complete 100 hours of community service. As for Giannulli, he would serve five months in prison and two years of supervised release, pay a $250,000 fine, and complete 250 hours of community service.

Tomorrow, a judge will officially sentence Loughlin and Giannulli. He could either agree to the terms of the deal that was agreed upon, or give them a sentence that is either harsher or lighter.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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