Federal prosecutors spoke out on Monday to say that former “Fuller House” actress Lori Loughlin and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli deserve prison time for their respective roles in the college admissions scandal.

Variety reported that the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a sentencing memo to the judge in which they urged him to stick to the terms of a plea agreement signed in May and sentence to Giannulli to five months behind bars, and Loughlin to two months.

Loughlin and Giannulli are due to be officially sentenced on Friday, months after they plead guilty to charges related to them allegedly paying $500,000 in bribe money to have their two daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as members of the crew team, even though neither girl had ever rowed before.

In their memo, prosecutors argued that the sentences that were agreed upon in the deal were consistent with those given to other defendants in the college admissions case, and that they reflect the seriousness of the crime that took place.

“The crime Giannulli and Loughlin committed was serious,” the prosecutors argued in the memo. “Over the course of two years, they engaged twice in Singer’s fraudulent scheme. They involved both their daughters in the fraud, directing them to pose in staged photographs for use in fake athletic profiles and instructing one daughter how to conceal the scheme from her high school counselor.”

They went on to add that Giannulli deserves a harsher sentence than Loughlin because he played the more active role in the fraud, “brazenly lying” to a school counselor about his daughter’s athletic abilities in order to cover up the scheme.

“Loughlin took a less active role, but was nonetheless fully complicit, eagerly enlisting Singer a second time for her 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,” the prosecutors continued.

This comes after an insider said that Loughlin has been struggling as the date of her sentencing gets closer.

“This has been a long road, and waiting for their sentencing has been painfully stressful,” the source explained. “She is exhausted and is ready to get past this point. She’s spending time with her family and trying her very best not to think about what lies ahead, because she realizes at this point it’s out of her hands.”

“Her focus is to spend as much quality time with her daughters as possible as she knows she might not see them for a while,” the insider added. “They don’t want to focus on the negative and are doing their very best to avoid spending the last days in fear of what’s to come.”

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