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   BOSTON (AP) — “Full House” Actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion   
   designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and other prominent parents   
   urged a judge Wednesday to dismiss charges against them in the   
   college admissions bribery case, accusing prosecutors of   
   “extraordinary” misconduct.   
      
   Defense attorneys for the the famous couple and other parents   
   still fighting the charges say the case cannot stand because   
   investigators bullied their informant into lying and then   
   concealed evidence that would bolster the parents' claims of   
   innocence.   
      
   “The extraordinary government misconduct presented in this case   
   threatens grave harm to defendants and the integrity of this   
   proceeding. That misconduct cannot be ignored,” the lawyers   
   wrote.   
      
   The U.S. attorney's office in Boston declined Wednesday to   
   comment.   
      
   Loughlin and Giannulli are scheduled to go on trial in October   
   on charges that they paid $500,000 to get their daughters into   
   the University of Southern California as crew recruits even   
   though neither girl was a rower. Prosecutors say they snapped   
   photos of the girls sitting on rowing machines to help make fake   
   athletic profiles that portrayed them as star athletes.   
      
   Six other wealthy parents accused of participating in the scheme   
   will stand trial alongside them. Another six parents are   
   scheduled to face trial in January.   
      
   The defense says prosecutors withheld evidence that would   
   support the parents' argument that they believed the payments   
   were legitimate donations that would benefit the schools, rather   
   than bribes for coaches or officials. The evidence — notes from   
   the phone of the scheme's admitted mastermind, admissions   
   consultant Rick Singer — was not given to the defense until last   
   month.   
      
   Singer wrote in the notes that FBI agents yelled at him and told   
   him to lie to get parents to say things in recorded phone calls   
   that could be used against them. Singer wrote that FBI agents   
   told him to say that he told parents the payments were bribes.   
      
   “They continue to ask me to tell a fib and not restate what I   
   told my clients as to where there money was going — to the   
   program not the coach and that it was a donation and they want   
   it to be a payment,” Singer wrote, according to the filing.   
      
   The defense says the notes show that agents bullied Singer into   
   fabricating evidence and try to trick parents into falsely   
   agreeing that the payments were bribes.   
      
   “For government agents to coerce an informant into lying on   
   recorded calls to generate false inculpatory evidence against   
   investigative targets—and to then knowingly prosecute those   
   targets using that false evidence—is governmental malfeasance of   
   the worst kind,” the lawyers wrote.   
      
   Instead of immediately handing over the notes when they first   
   saw them in Oct. 2018, prosecutors “buried" the evidence and   
   repeatedly told the defense it had provided everything it was   
   supposed to, the parents' lawyers wrote.   
      
   The defense also accused investigators of allowing Singer to   
   delete thousands of text messages from his cellphone and then   
   mounting an “aggressive (and highly successful) pressure   
   campaign” to get parents to plead guilty.   
      
   “While withholding the notes and many other examples of material   
   exculpatory information, the government attempted to coerce   
   defendants into pleading guilty by threatening that if they did   
   not, they would face additional charges,” the parents' lawyers   
   wrote.   
      
   Singer’s notes weren’t given to the defense until February   
   because the government believed they were privileged and didn’t   
   review them further after discovering them, prosecutors have   
   said. Prosecutors say it doesn't matter whether Singer called   
   the payments bribes or donations, because it was still an   
   illegal quid pro quo.   
      
   The defense said if the judge doesn't dismiss the case, he   
   should at least prevent prosecutors from using the “tainted   
   recordings” at trial and order a hearing to “uncover the full   
   truth about the recordings and the government's efforts to   
   fabricate and conceal evidence.”   
      
   Nearly two dozen other parents have pleaded guilty in the case,   
   including “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman, who was   
   sentenced to two weeks in prison for paying $15,000 to have a   
   proctor correct her daughter’s SAT answers.   
      
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