LOS ANGELES, CA — Eleven parents, including actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, face new charges and up to five years in prison for allegedly conspiring to bribe employees of USC to have their children admitted to the university. The new indictments come the same day university officials announced Loughlin’s daughters are no longer enrolled at the school.

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The charges are part of the wide-ranging college admissions scandal that has ensnared dozens of wealthy and famous families as well as several of the nation’s elite schools. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston, where the case is being handled, the latest charge carries a possible sentence of up to five years in prison, along with supervised release and fines of around $250,000. Loughlin and Giannulli are among the most famous parents in the scandal refusing to plead guilty. As the faces of the holdouts, they continue to rack up additional charges from a Justice Department willing to tighten the pressure on parents heading to trial.

On Tuesday, USC announced the famous pair’s two daughters are no longer enrolled at the school. According to prosecutors, Loughlin and Giannulli paid $500,000 in bribes to have their daughters, Instagram celebrity Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli, admitted to USC as crew recruits even though neither rowed. In a statement provided to Patch, the school announced:

“Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli are not currently enrolled. We are unable to provide additional information because of student privacy laws.”

Also, Donna Heinel, a former USC senior associate athletic director, and former UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo each faces a new charge of conspiring to commit federal programs bribery by soliciting and accepting bribes to facilitate the admission of students to the universities where they worked. The defendants were previously charged with racketeering conspiracy in connection with the scheme.

In exchange for bribes, university employees implicated in the nationwide probe allegedly designated defendants’ children as athletic recruits — with little or no regard for their athletic abilities — or as members of other favored admissions categories, federal prosecutors said.
Arraignment dates for the four defendants have not yet been scheduled.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, where the case is being handled, the charge against Loughlin and Giannulli carries a possible sentence of up to five years in prison, along with supervised release and fines of around $250,000.

A total of 52 defendants have been charged with conspiring with William “Rick” Singer of Newport Beach and others to bribe SAT and ACT exam administrators to allow a test taker to secretly take college entrance exams in place of their children, or to correct the children’s answers after they had taken the exams.

The defendants were also previously charged with conspiring to launder the bribes and other payments in furtherance of the fraud by funneling them through Singer’s purported charity and his for-profit corporation, as well as by transferring money into the United States, from outside the United States, for the purpose of promoting the fraud scheme.

City News Service contributed to this report. This is a developing story. Please refresh the screen for updates.