Becky's Going to Jail!

Lori Loughlin, the actress at the center of the nation-wide college admissions scandal, has been sentenced to two months in prison after admitting to paying thousands of dollars to get her two daughters into top colleges.

The sentencing came hours after her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, was sentenced to five months in prison for his role in getting the couple’s daughters admitted to the University of Southern California by falsely portraying them as elite athletes.

During the hearing, the 54-year-old actress, best known for playing Aunt Becky on Full House, sat silently as prosecutors argued she should receive the maximum sentence her plea deal allows because she was “fully complicit” in the scheme.  Loughlin issued a brief apology, saying she’s “ready to face the consequences.”

In addition to the prison sentence, Loughlin will have to pay a $150,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service, U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton ruled.  Giannulli will pay a $250,000 fine and perform 250 hours of community service.  Before sentencing Loughlin, the judge admonished the actress for her role in the college admission’s scandal, stating that while he believes she is remorseful he does not understand why somebody who already had a “fairytale life” needed to “grab even more.”

“You have participated in the corruption of the system of higher education in this country,” Gorton said. “I hope you will spend the rest of your charmed life making amends for the system you have harmed.”  Gorton also tore into Giannulli, stating that the designer’s crime was “motivated by hubris” and stressed that his prison sentence for wire and mail fraud offenses will send a message to other parents that buying their children’s way into college is “not the way it works in this country.”

Today's sentencing marks the end of a nearly 17-month saga for the celebrity couple, who pleaded guilty in May after originally denying their roles in what was described as the “largest college admissions scam prosecuted by the Justice Department,” dubbed Operation Varsity Blues.  Loughlin, 55, and her husband, 56, paid Singer $500,000 to get their two daughters admitted to USC as rowing recruits, even though neither teen had participated in the sport. The payment was made out to Key Worldwide Foundation, a non-profit organization run by Singer.

In detention memo released Tuesday, prosecutors argued Giannulli should get a longer sentence than his wife because he “engaged more frequently with Singer, directed the bribe payments to USC and Singer, and personally confronted his daughter’s high school counselor to prevent the scheme from being discovered, brazenly lying about his daughter’s athletic abilities.”  But while Loughlin took “a less active role,” prosecutors stressed she was “fully complicit” and eagerly enlisted Singer a second time to help the couple’s younger daughter “and coaching her daughter not to 'say too much' to her high school's legitimate college counselor, lest he catch on to their fraud.” Neither of the couple’s daughters, who are no longer enrolled in USC, have been charged in the scheme.

Don't worry, Becky-- orange is the new black.