U.S. lawyers opposed Mossimo Giannulli’s request to leave the prison early and serve the remainder of his five-month sentence at home, days after the fashion designer filed a lawsuit.
A federal document filed January 19 by U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling, obtained by Fox News, shows prosecutors are in opposition to Lori Loughlin’s husband’s request, asking federal court to address themselves and rejects his request.
“The government respects this opposition with respect to the accused Mossimo Giannulli’s accused of reducing his sentence. Giannulli claims that the measures taken by the Bureau of Prisons protect him against the COVID-19 pandemic, ‘many “was more extreme ‘than the court intended to impose. sentence, and that his sentence should consequently be reduced by more than half,” Lelling wrote in his reply.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office notes that although the prosecutor “admits that he spent a long period in quarantine – from which he has now been released – partly because he was exposed to other inmates with COVID-19, and partly because he complained about symptoms corresponding to the virus. However, this possibility was not unpredictable when Giannulli was sentenced, and it provides no basis for reducing the sentence that this court found to be fair and appropriate. ‘
LORI LOUGHLIN’S HUSBAND MOSSIMO GIANNULLI ASKES TO REMAIN FROM FIVE MONTHS PRISON HOME
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday filed documents requesting that the court reject Mossimo Giannulli’s (left) request to serve the remainder of his sentence at home.
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The government argues that ‘any reduction in Giannulli’s sentence will be widely publicized, thus undermining the deterrent effect of the sentence imposed by the court. The government respectfully argues that the better way is to enable BOP to assess whether Giannulli is a suitable candidate. for house arrest, as it will do in the ordinary course of assessing how the prisoner under the pandemic may decrease. “
“For the foregoing reasons, the government reverently asks the court to deny Giannulli’s motion to amend his sentence to home protection,” the documentation read.
The filing comes less than a week since lawyers asked Loughlin’s husband, who is 57, to be “released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and serve the remainder of his prison sentence in house arrest.”
At the request of Giannulli, his lawyers note that his time in solitary confinement was unexpected. He reported to a facility in Lompoc, California, on Nov. 19.
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Until Wednesday, Giannulli spent 56 days in solitary quarantine. His lawyers say this, as well as the need to reduce prison populations due to COVID-19 risks, offers’ extraordinary and compelling reasons for the court to dismiss Mr. To provide Giannulli with the desired relief. ‘
Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli leave the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on August 27, 2019. Giannulli, 57, is currently serving his five-month prison sentence in Lompoc, California.
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Lawyers for Giannulli also said he “exhausted administrative solutions by asking BOP to move him to the house opening.”
Fox News can confirm that Giannulli was finally transferred to a minimum security camp on January 13.
Online prison records viewed by Fox News show the 57-year-old is expected to be released from Lompoc on April 17.
Meanwhile, Loughlin completed her two-month prison sentence weeks ago. She was released on December 28 from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Dublin, California.
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In August, Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded guilty to $ 500,000 charges against scam master William “Rick” Singer for recruiting their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, to the University of Southern California crews team. The two have never participated in the sport.
In their plea agreement, Loughlin agreed to serve two months and pay a $ 150,000 fine, along with two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service. Meanwhile, Giannulli was ordered to pay a $ 250,000 fine with two years of unsupervised release and 250 hours of community service, in addition to a five-month prison sentence.
Lawyers for Giannulli did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.