Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are feeling the heat after being hit with additional bribery charges for their alleged role in the nationwide college admissions scandal, a report said Wednesday.
“This stress is about to break them,” a source close to the couple told People.
“They feel like this is David versus Goliath. How do you go up against the federal government, when the government has decided to make an example out of you?” the source continued. “How can you possibly move forward from this?”
The charge that the celebrity pair was hit with Tuesday — conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery — is tied to the original case against them: that they allegedly shelled out $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters into the University of Southern California.
Since the new charge, the “Fuller House” star is “angry, she is sad, but most of all, she is terrified.”
“It just gets worse and worse for her …,” the source said. “She feels like she is a scapegoat.”
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