Why Lori Loughlin College Admissions Scandal Is Now ‘Disturbing’

She has been the focus of an ongoing investigation for over a year, and now, following an attempt to get the charges dropped, Lori Loughlin could find herself getting a small break as prosecutors are put more on the spot regarding the claims the actress has made about the evidence in the case.

In a statement (via Variety), U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton revealed that he wanted prosecutors to directly address claims by Loughlin and her defense attorneys that William “Rick” Singer was coached on what to say in order to help incriminate his clients in the College Admissions Scandal. Prosecutors have claimed that no such coaching ever happened, but Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli and others have maintained there is evidence which would suggest it.

“The court considers the allegations in Singer’s October notes to be serious and disturbing,” Gorton wrote. “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.”

The judgment comes after Loughlin and Giannulli’s attorneys argued the case against them should be thrown out because of Singer’s alleged claims.

“They continue to ask me to tell a fib and not restate what I told my clients as to where their money was going—to the program not the coach and that it was a donation and they want it to be a payment,” Singer allegedly wrote in a note on his phone.

The couple and other parents maintain they thought they were making legitimate donations and did not know they were participating in a fraud scheme. Prosecutors state the parents knew what they were doing and in the case of Giannulli and Loughlin in particular, they even created fake athletic profiles to help secure their daughters' places at USC as Row recruits.

Alleged staged photos of both Isabelle Rose and Olivia Jade Giannulli were released last week.

Loughlin and Giannulli are scheduled to face a judge in October and face a variety of bribery, fraud and money laundering charges.