Like Ted Cruz in a crisis, we’re going to Mexico, baby! Well, not us per se. You and I are probably not going to San José del Cabo anytime soon. But Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin, the couple who tested the checks and balances of the college-admissions process and found it nicely malleable? Those people are going to Mexico. They’re going to San José del Cabo for a quickie vacation after a probation court granted them permission to leave the country and have a little me time together.
And why not? They wrote little request letters to the judge, citing how Loughlin has finished her community service and Giannulli is on his way to completing his 250 hours of service. The probation office in the Central District of California signed off on the request and now they can be off for a five-day trip.
Listen, I get it. It’s deeply gettable! What a year it’s been, huh? For everyone, sure, but especially for those two, two people who spent at least part of it in federal lockup, a terrible place to be under the best of circumstances, and this year has involved very bad circumstances. Take the prison part out of it and you could still see them breaking the piggy bank, the rather large one they keep in the basement, and getting the heck out of Dodge (a.k.a. the Hidden Hills). Maybe the answer isn’t that they cool it on asking for special treatment, and instead everyone who goes through prison in this country gets this. A five-day trip to San José del Cabo, or even Cancún. (Not Tulum, though. Too much seaweed.) Just time to reset and get back to basics. As the saying goes, you do the crime, you do the time, and then you go to Mexico.
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