Donato Sardella/Getty Images for LACMA(LOS ANGELES) — Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli may be headed to the big house but not before they settle into their new one.
The former Full House star and her fashion designer husband recently purchased a $9.5 million dollar home located in Hidden Hills, California, according to People.
The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom contemporary farmhouse home is nuzzled within a gated community and boasts almost 12,000 square feet of living space. Aside from the “sweeping views” and “picturesque hills” outside, their new residence has a backyard complete with a pool, spa, fire pit and BBQ station. And the inside is just as luxurious with a walk-in wine cellar, gym, & movie theatre.
The couple’s purchase comes after they sold their Bel Air home for just under $18.75 million to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen.
Loughlin and Giannulli are currently awaiting sentencing for their involvement in the college admissions scandal. In May, they both agreed to plead guilty and serve time for paying bribes to get their daughters, Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli, into the University of Southern California as rowing recruits. Neither of them row.
If their plea agreement is approved by a judge, Loughlin will serve two months in prison, complete 100 hours of community service and pay a fine of $150,000. Giannulli will serve five months, perform 250 hours of community service and pay a $250,000 fine.
The couple’s next court date is set for August 21.
(TEMPE, Ariz.) — Even as students have begun moving into housing at one of the biggest colleges in the United States, debate rages over if they should even be there in the first place.
With the fall term scheduled to begin Aug. 20, Arizona State University is facing backlash from students and staff for insisting on opening in-person amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Five hundred staff and students signed a letter to ASU’s president with concerns over COVID-19 safety on campus.
“Communication regarding the reasoning for ASU’s return to in-person instruction at this time and regarding what will happen when an eventual outbreak occurs on campus has been lacking,” the letter explained.
The school announced in May that it would be opening with in-person classes in spite of a rise in coronavirus cases in the state and advice from a state official for schools to be careful about reopening.
“Arizona is not currently in place to resume traditional in-person instruction or hybrid learning models. Every indicator says that there is high community spread across the state,” Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman said in an Aug. 4 statement.
The school president and provost are working to address the concerns expressed in the letter, an ASU spokesperson told ABC News in a statement, saying the letter included “very legitimate ideas, questions, requests and concerns.”
“ASU will continue to provide a university-wide framework for managing and mitigating the spread of COVID-19, which to the maximum extent possible empowers individual members of the ASU community to live, work, teach, research, and serve the people of Arizona in whatever ways best address the needs of each individual member of the ASU community,” the statement continued.
Some of ASU’s plans for when students and staff return to campus for in-person learning include in-person courses with less than 100 students, staggered in-person learning, mandatory face-coverings in all ASU buildings and no visitors in ASU resident halls, according to the school’s website.
(NEW YORK) — Chellsie Memmel last competed as a pro gymnast in 2012.
Today, eight years later, she is a 32-year-old mom of two who rediscovered her passion for gymnastics while quarantined in Wisconsin during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I was in the gym more than I ever have been,” said Memmel, whose parents own a gym, M & M Gymnastics, in Dousman, Wisconsin. “And I just started practicing more and being in the gym even more.”
The experience transformed Memmel, an Olympic silver medalist and three-time World Champion who is now making a gymnastics comeback, with an eye toward possibly competing in the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
“I haven’t said that out loud yet,” Memmel told ABC News’ Good Morning America about aiming for Tokyo. “My goal is just to see where this takes me. I’ve committed to training and to try to get to competitions and just to see this where it goes.”
If Memmel does compete with Team USA in Tokyo, she will be one of a very few moms still competing in the sport and one of a very few women over the age of 30 in Olympics gymnastics history.
In 2016, for example, the oldest member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team was Aly Raisman, who at 22 was a decade younger than Memmel is today. Russia’s Oksana Chusovitina made history that same year as the oldest woman gymnast to ever compete in the Olympic games, at age 41.
Memmel believes she would be the first mother to compete on the U.S. women’s gymnastics team.
“It’s made me a better mom,” Memmel said of her revitalized gymnastics career. “When I started doing gymnastics, it lit that fire of something that was a huge part of my life for sure and something that I still love to do.”
Memmel retired in 2012 after a series of injuries and after she failed to make the U.S. team for the London Olympics.
She got married the next year and then had her kids, Dashel, 5, and Audrielle, 2. All the while, she maintained a foot in the gymnastics world through judging and coaching.
It wasn’t until two years ago that Memmel decided she wanted to get back in shape after having kids. She started doing “Chellsie Challenges,” conditioning workouts that went viral on social media.
“Once I got in better shape I was like, ‘I should try flipping and see how that feels,'” she recalled. “I started doing that and just having fun and seeing what I could do and that kind of kept happening.”
Memmel now does gymnastics training three days per week and does conditioning on the other days. It’s all part of a training plan that she said is both easier on her body and has made her feel stronger than she was even at the peak of her career.
“Being in shape and maintaining a good level of physical fitness was the hardest part for me when I was younger, the absolute hardest part,” she said. “Now my runs feel stronger, some of my jumping just feels more powerful.”
“[My] eating is better,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot more about my body.”
Valorie Kondos Field, the former UCLA women’s gymnastics coach who led her teams to seven NCAA titles, said Memmel has a level of maturity now that is benefiting her emotionally and physically.
“I think that she has a tremendous chance of making the [Olympic] team, and the reason being is because she’s allowed her body to heal so she’s actually probably healthier physically than she was when she was at the top of her game during the Olympics,” said Field. “What we college coaches have seen is that when gymnasts are mature, they have a second peak in their careers that is actually better then when they’re younger.”
“It’s because of their maturity, of their wisdom, and it’s because they’re no longer doing a sport just because they’re told to,” she said. “They’re actually doing it because they love it.”
Memmel, who started doing gymnastics as soon as she could walk because her parents owned a gym, said this is the first time in her career that gymnastics does not have her complete attention. In fact, she started doing conditioning workouts on her own two years ago in part so she could have some “me time” in her day.
“This time around, gymnastics isn’t my main focus,” said Memmel. “I’m a mom first. My life doesn’t solely revolve around it right now.”
Memmel’s two kids and husband will be by her side in Tokyo if she makes the team. The Olympics were delayed until next summer because of the global coronavirus pandemic.
“The timing for me obviously worked out for the better because there wouldn’t have been enough time to get to where I am now and even be thinking about having a shot,” said Memmel. “I’m just one person, one sport, but the entire world is going through the same thing, so it’s just kind of rolling with it and seeing what happens.”
Field said she can already see the country rallying behind a 32-year-old mom of two competing for Olympic gymnastics gold.
“When she thinks about her gymnastics now, it’s coming from such a genuine place of her spirit, versus something that she continued doing because she was good at it,” said Field. “Imagine having Chellsie to rally behind.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Minnesota 4, Milwaukee 2 Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 1 Houston 6, San Francisco 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 5, Chi White Sox 1 Tampa Bay 8, Boston 7 Seattle 10, Texas 2 LA Angels 10 9, Oakland 9
NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 13, Atlanta 8 Washington 16, NY Mets 4 Pittsburgh, St. Louis (Postponed) Arizona 12, Colorado 8 San Diego 2, LA Dodgers 1 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Phoenix 128, Oklahoma 101 Dallas 122, Utah 114 Toronto 114, Milwaukee 106 Miami 114, Indiana 92 LA Lakers 124, Denver 121
Florida Dept. of Law EnforcementBy LUKE BARR, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — One year after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center there have been no answers from the federal Bureau of Prisons on what happened Aug. 10, 2019 after a promised investigation and a call for more transparency.
“We will get to the bottom of it, and there will be accountability,” Attorney General William Barr said just days after the suicide.
In an interview with Axios last week, President Donald Trump suggested that he believes that Epstein’s death wasn’t a suicide, despite his attorney general and medical experts concluding it was.
“People are still trying to figure out how did it happen. Was it suicide? Was he killed?” Trump asked.
That contradicts what Barr has said on several occasions about the death of the former financier and convicted sex offender.
The attorney general told ABC News’ Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas in July, he was “livid’ about the suicide.
“As you will recall– after he committed suicide I said that I was confident that we would continue to pursue this case vigorously and– pursue anyone who’s complicit in it,” Barr said.
Barr said that at the surface the motives seemed nefarious, but it wasn’t once he took a look at the whole picture.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to make the director available for an interview and declined to comment citing ongoing investigations.
A week after Epstein’s death, the attorney general appointed a new Bureau of Prisons director — Kathleen Hawk Sawyer. Barr also promised to get to the bottom of what happened in MCC New York.
Hawk Sawyer, a BOP veteran, lasted less than a year in the institution, and new director Michael Carvajal was appointed by the attorney general in March.
The relocation of the warden in charge of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, was stalled by the Bureau of Prisons in January. The BOP said Lamine N’Diaye, who was the warden at the time of Epstein’s death, has been “deferred pending the conclusion of investigations.”
Shane Fausey, the president of the Council of Prison Locals, the union that represents corrections officers said that the bureau has serious staffing issues, that have yet to be addressed.
“Until we have enough correctional officers to properly supervise inmates, we can’t increase the level of safety and incidents will continue to happen. The agency is reactionary,” Fausey explained. “Reacting to problems instead of being proactive. You can only be proactive, if you’re adequately staffed. The COVID response, the suicide rates, the rates of inmate violence. The statistics speak for themselves and they depict an agency in the midst of a staffing crisis.”
In November, two corrections officers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were charged with “making false records and conspiring to make false records and to defraud the United States by impairing the lawful functions of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a Manhattan detention facility that houses federal inmates,” a release from the Southern District of New York said.
“For a period of approximately two hours, Noel and Thomas sat at their desk without moving, and appeared to have been asleep,” the indictment says. “Noel used the computer periodically throughout the night including to search the internet for furniture sales and benefit websites. Thomas used the computer briefly around 1 a.m., 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. to search for motorcycle sales and sports news.”
Both Noel and Thomas have pleaded not guilty.
“These indictments don’t address the core issues inside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center New York or the Federal Prison system in its entirety. These staff were placed in an assignment where the tools and resources needed to be successful were not available. Simply assigning blame will not correct the staff shortages that put this chain of events in place,” Tyrone Covington, who represents the Correctional Officers Union, and is president of union Local 3148 said.
Federal Bureau of Prisons sources told ABC News, that “nothing” has changed inside the agency — despite pledges to do so.
One federal source said there has been no movement on the internal investigation looking at BOP’s shortfalls with Epstein’s death, and none on the investigation into the 2018 death of Whitey Bulger, the legendary leader of the Boston-based Winter Hill Gang. Bulger was beaten to death at United States Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia.
Even with the added scrutiny, BOP facilities have been in the headlines.
At MCC, a gun was found inside the facility in March 2020.
From May 2019 to December 2019, there were 11 assaults of MCC officers, while there have been 15 in just the first two months of 2020, a source said.
A source familiar with the matter says that the very place where Epstein died by suicide, the Special Housing Unit, is “routinely” understaffed highlighting a major safety issue for the inmates in the SHU.
One source described the prison as a “nightmare” to work in and outlined what they describe as a revolving door of leadership, where some members of upper management are only in their positions for 18 months before they move on to different facilities.
Typically, the source said, wardens and associate wardens stay at a facility much longer.
MCC has had their share of high profile inmates, such as Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer to Stormy Daniels who was convicted in mid-February for extorting Nike.
Although Avenatti was released from MCC in March due to COVID-19, a source familiar with his conditions at MCC said he was kept in the Special Housing Unit, the same unit as Epstein.
Across the river, at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, a Department of Justice Inspector General review found that MDC, which left 1,700 inmates in below-freezing temperatures after a fire last year, had “longstanding” problems with its heating system.
“We determined that heating issues had been a longstanding problem at the jail that existed before, during, and after the fire and power outage and were unrelated to these events,” said Horowitz, adding, “Rather, they were the result of the facility’s lack of proper equipment to continuously monitor temperatures, which the BOP (Bureau of Prisons) was aware of and had not addressed.”
When asked about Epstein’s accomplice Maxwell, Trump wished her well.
“She’s now in jail. Yeah, I wish her well. I’d wish you well. I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty,” Trump said.
The attorney general said last month that he’s committed to making sure she makes it to trial, and has asked those responsible for her safety to relay, “specifically the protocols they’re following, and we have a number redundancy systems to monitor the situation.”
One of those protocols, sources said, is that she was given paper clothes upon checking into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, over fears that she might take her own life.
Sources stressed to ABC News that it is standard procedure for high-profile inmates or new inmates. However, one source told ABC News that the federal Bureau of Prisons has gone to “great measures” to ensure Maxwell’s safety.
Donato Sardella/Getty Images for LACMA(LOS ANGELES) — Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli may be headed to the big house but not before they settle into their new one. 
