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Couple faces death penalty in Thailand.

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A dream to live at sea has left an American Bitcoin investor and his Thai partner in hot water with officials in Thailand, and the two may face life in prison or death over violating the country's sovereignty.

Thai authorities raided a floating home on Thursday in the Andaman Sea belonging to Chad Elwartowski and Supranee Thepdet, known as Nadia, who sought to be pioneers in the "seasteading" movement which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation's laws.

The couple had gone into hiding earlier this week, with Elwartowski claiming Monday in a Facebook post that has since been deleted that "Thailand wants us killed."

"Hunting us down to our death is just plain stupid and highlights exactly the reason someone would be willing to go out in middle of the ocean to get away from governments," he wrote. "We never had any ill intentions and I even state plainly several times that I would not want to be a citizen of any seastead nation that would have me."
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The couple had been living part-time on a small structure they said was anchored outside Thailand's territorial waters, just over 12 nautical miles from shore.

"We were hoping to bring tourism to Phuket with an underwater restaurant, floating hotels and medical research, tech jobs, etc. We had 3 wealthy entrepreneurs in the past week tell us they were coming to live in Phuket because they were excited about the project," Elwartowski wrote.

A promotional video from March showed the couple toasting champagne to the future on the open water, with Elwartowski saying the home built by Ocean Builders was the first of an additional 20 homes planned.

"We're looking forward to freedom-loving people to come join us out on the open ocean," he said.

Instagram photos and video posted by Nadia, also known as "bitcoingirlthailand," also showed life out at sea.

But Thailand's navy said the couple's outpost still endangered national sovereignty, charging them with article 119 of the Thai Criminal Code, an offense punishable by life imprisonment or death.

Thai authorities revoked Elwartowski's visa on Wednesday and vowed to remove the home within a week. When they arrived at the home this week, the couple was gone.
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In a statement released on Monday, Ocean Builders said the couple were "volunteers excited about the prospect of living free," and were "no way" involved in the design, construction, decision on where the home was located.

"Chad and Nadia are safe for now but understand that Thailand is currently being run by a military dictator. There will be no trial if they are caught," the group said. "They already demonstrated that by being judge jury and executioner of the historic very first seastead."

While Thailand's Navy hit the couple with the serious charges, police colonel Nikorn Somsuk told the South China Morning Post that he would have to ask the attorney general to proceed with the case since the outpost was technically in international waters.

"We have not met the couple yet. We have sent investigators to their home but they were not there," he told the paper. "We don't know what their thoughts are apart from the fact that it seems a bit extreme to want to be so isolated."

He also hinted that the couple may not face the most serious punishment, telling the South China Morning Post "as of now, there is no evidence that their actions pose a risk to Thai sovereignty".
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Elwartowski said in a separate Facebook post on Monday that the couple are "still safe," and that he was worried about Nadia "being driven from her home country and her family."

"My biggest worry when they said they demolished it was that all I have is on the seastead. It was my home. Being a minimalist I don't have much but what I car(e) most about in all that I own is my post cards," he wrote.

Elwartowski said he accumulated a "large stack" of cards from cities in 24 states across the U.S. and travel around the world.

"But as long as Nadia and I are able to live through this that is all that matters to us right now," he said. "We just want to live."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Bitcoin couple may face death penalty in Thailand over 'seasteading' effort

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A dream to live at sea has left an American Bitcoin investor and his Thai partner in hot water with officials in Thailand, and the two may face life in prison or death over violating the country's sovereignty.

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This morning the weather channel experienced malicious software attack.

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the weather channel knocked off air by 'malicious software attack' - cnn

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The Weather Channel knocked off air by 'malicious software attack'

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The Weather Channel was knocked off the air Thursday morning by what it said was a malicious software attack on the network.

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Dog survives being 135 miles out of shore.

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Dog survived 135 miles at sea - CNN Video

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A dog is "in good spirits" after surviving being stranded 135 miles out to sea in the Gulf of Thailand.

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Russian researchers have found liquid blood and urine inside the frozen carcass of a foal that died 42,000 years ago in Siberia's Verkhoyansk region.

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Russian researchers have found liquid blood and urine inside the frozen carcass of a foal that died 42,000 years ago in Siberia's Verkhoyansk region.

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Amber alert issued for 15 year old girl. Her mom is now wanted for possible murder.

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An Amber Alert was issued Thursday for a California teenager after investigators learned she was last seen with her mother and a man who are suspects in a murder and considered "armed and dangerous."

Alora Benitez, 15, was last seen around 9 a.m. on Wednesday in Torrance, California, accompanied by her mother, Maricela Mercado, and Roman Cerratos, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Mercado, 40, and Cerratos, 39, are suspects in the homicide that occurred on Tuesday in Carson, California, according to the sheriff's department. The victim, whose name was not released, was found dead in the front seat of a white Audi near a business district in the Southern California town.

(Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) Maricela Mercado, 40, and Roman Carratos, 39, are wanted in connection with a homicide in Carson, Calif.

"They are considered armed and dangerous," sheriff's officials said of Mercado and Ceratos in a statement.

Alora was last seen leaving Torrance with her mother and Cerratos in a white 2013 BMW, four-door sedan with the Nevada license plate MARIMAR.

(Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) An Amber Alert was issued on April 18, 2019 for 15-year-old Alora Benitez, believed to be with her mother and a man who are wanted in a California homicide.

"Los Angeles County Homicide Bureau is requesting the public's assistance in locating Alora and safely returning her to her family," the sheriff's department statement reads. "Please do not take independent action, call 9-1-1 and alert local police or sheriff's officials."

Homicide detectives learned that Alora was last seen with her mother and Cerratos while investigating the homicide Tuesday morning in Carson.

The murder victim, whose name was not released, was found bleeding about 3:30 a.m. inside a car parked in a business district, according to the sheriff's department. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sheriff's officials initially said the victim had been stabbed to death but later told reporters that the cause of death was pending an autopsy.

Anyone with information on the missing girl can contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.

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California murder probe prompts Amber Alert for 15-year-old girl

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An Amber Alert was issued Thursday for a California teenager after investigators learned she was last seen with her mother and a man who are suspects in a murder and considered "armed and dangerous." Alora Benitez, 15, was last seen around 9 a.m.

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Monster Great White Shark weighing 1,688 pounds spotted off Florida Panhandle.

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A 1,688-pound female great white shark called Miss Costa was spotted this week swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida panhandle, according to researchers

A transmitter on the sub-adult shark "pinged" south of Panama City, Fla., according to OCEARCH, an international great white shark research organization. A "ping" occurs when a tagged shark's dorsal fin breaks the surface of the water, transmitting a signal to a satellite, the organization told the Pensacola News Journal.
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While it isn't unusual for great whites to swim through the Gulf of Mexico, Miss Costa's cruise through the Florida Panhandle is significant because a ping from a large female that far north into the Gulf is rare, OCEARCH said in a news release Tuesday.

The organization said it hopes that tracking Miss Costa and other great white sharks will help to understand the movement patterns of sharks in the Gulf.
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Miss Costa measured 12-feet 6-inches when she was first tagged by researchers on Sept. 23, 2016, in Nantucket, Mass., OCEARCH said. Researchers estimated the great white could be between 14-15 feet long today.

The most recent great white sharks to visit the Gulf Coast include a 1,326-pound male named Hilton and an 8-foot 6-inch, 460-pound female named Savannah, the News Journal reported.

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Great white shark weighing 1,668 pounds spotted off Florida Panhandle, researchers say

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A 1,688-pound female great white shark called Miss Costa was spotted this week swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida panhandle, according to researchers A transmitter on the sub-adult shark "pinged" south of Panama City, Fla., according to OCEARCH, an international great white shark research organization.

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Notre Dame fundraising efforts inspire people to donate nearly $2 million to rebuild burned Louisiana churches

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Notre Dame fundraising efforts inspire people to donate more than $1 million to rebuild burned Louisiana churches

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As millions of dollars roll in to help rebuild the historic Notre Dame Cathedral, people have been inspired to donate to rebuild three churches in Louisiana that were intentionally burned down.

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Migrant families fought for reunification months after separation policy ended

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Ariel, 6, is all smiles as he FaceTimes with his parents and sister. "Missing you always," his father Jesus says in Spanish right before they disconnect.

For nine months, their phone has been the only bridge between these parents, living in Honduras, and their son, staying with relatives in Washington, D.C.

When Ariel and his father Jesus, a migrant from Honduras who requested that ABC News not print his last name for his family's safety, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last spring, they were detained by U.S. immigration authorities, and then separated.

Jesus said that he told the officers that he would not part with his son.

"No. No, I am not giving him away. You will have to kill me first," Jesus said he told them in Spanish. "They turned me around on my back to face the wall. And they put [Ariel] in a room. When I turn around, my son is no longer there."

This family is one of thousands that were caught in the crosshairs of the Trump administration's short-lived "zero-tolerance" policy, rescinded last June, that resulted in children being separated from their parents after crossing the southern border.

The full impact of the practice is still unknown, particularly after an internal government report in January revealed that potentially thousands more families were separated than the over 2,700 that had been previously reported. Last week, government lawyers predicted that it could take up to two years to identify all migrant families separated during the Trump administration.

When ABC News producers first met Jesus, his wife Mira and their daughter, Riccy, in Tijuana, Mexico, in February, they were on a weeks-long journey to the U.S., hoping to reunite with young Ariel and seek asylum. They were joined by 28 other migrant parents who had all been deported without their children under the "zero-tolerance" policy.

"These parents have been incredibly traumatized by the separation from their children," said Erika Pinheiro, their lawyer and the Litigation and Policy Director of Al Otro Lado, a nonprofit organization that provides legal services to migrants, deportees and refugees.

Jesus said he made the decision to leave Honduras with his son in May 2018 when threats were made on their lives, a danger made more real after gang members killed his brother-in-law, he said. He planned to stay with Ariel in the U.S., and then later bring Mira and Riccy.

But just days before the father and son set off, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented the controversial "zero-tolerance" policy for illegal entry.

"If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you as required by law," Sessions said last spring.

Jesus said that after officials took his son away, he was given a document in English to sign that he thought was an asylum application, but was instead a deportation order.

Although Jesus felt tricked, he was said he was willing to leave the country, but not without his child.

"I was telling them, it was fine if they didn't want to give me asylum but to give me back my son since I was leaving," Jesus said. "And they said, 'Well, sir, no one steals children here. Your son is doing well. And we will give him back to you at the airport.'"

But when he arrived at the airport, there was no sign of his little boy.

"They kept lying to him and telling him that he would be reunified in a few days, when his son was going to be on the plane, when they went back to Honduras. He's not the only father that they had to physically, forcibly put on the plane to be deported without the child," Pinheiro said.

In February, ABC News producers also met Elmer, another father from Honduras heading to the U.S. border to seek refuge and reunification with his 15-year-old daughter, Marisol.

Elmer said that he and his daughter fled their home after they both received death threats because of his work as a policeman, investigating a gang murder.

"When we arrived at Immigration, they send us to the so-called iceboxes. And that is ... I am not going to explain ... I cannot find the ways to express what we went through in there," Elmer said.

Elmer said that Marisol spent a night shivering with a fever. "And they took her away and they told me, 'Look, we are going to take your daughter so that she can get changed.' I never saw her again," he said.

In an interview with ABC News, Marisol also described being distraught and bewildered. "And I, with my tears, waited to see when he would come. And that's how the days passed. He didn't show up," she said.

Marisol was held in a detention center for migrant youth in Florida for six months.

"They assign you a number, your ID number, everything. I mean, they don't call you by your name there. Almost never do they call you by your name. They call you by your number," Marisol told ABC News.

"Why do you think they call it the 'kennel'? I mean, because there are cages, like in a kennel. Huge cages," Marisol said. "And young girls who were 5, 6, 9 years old. And they cried and the policemen who watched us said to them, 'Shut up, you crying girls! I have a headache. I don't want to hear you.'"

Eventually, Marisol was taken in by relatives in Wisconsin.

Pinheiro has observed this kind of trauma before. "What I've seen in a lot of these cases, the kids hold a lot of resentment towards their parents. Because even if they understand intellectually that their parent did not abandon them, emotionally they can't process that," Pinheiro said.

On March 2, nearly a year after their unwilling farewells with their children, Jesus, Elmer and dozens of other parents arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border once again. This time, at the Mexicali port of entry, they were joined by Pinheiro and a small army of volunteers who helped them apply for asylum and try to reunite with their children.

"I don't know what's going to happen. And I kept telling the parents you have to prepare for the worst," Pinheiro told ABC News as the families got ready to present themselves to U.S. border officials.

Immediately, they ran into the first road block, when U.S. agents told the families they do not have the capacity to process them. But 10 hours of negotiations later, a door opens.

"It's random. You know they'll be two families with the same facts, right? The same immigration history and one can get paroled out or could get separated another could be detained for a year. It's just it's really the luck of the draw," Pinheiro explained.

Jesus and his family were quickly released from U.S. government custody and soon flew to Washington, D.C., to reunite with Ariel.

"Finally we're together. I never lost hope. I knew we were going to see each other again," Jesus told his son during their long-awaited embrace. The family, now intact, is currently living with a sponsor family in Indiana.

But a long and grueling journey to gain asylum in the U.S. still lies ahead, with only a slim chance of success. A report released Wednesday by the Homeland Security Advisory Council found that less than 15% of Central American families will likely be granted asylum, a process that can take over two years.

Elmer and 16 other parents who traveled together from Tijuana were not as fortunate as Jesus. After crossing the border, they were detained at the Imperial Regional Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located in Calexico, California.

"The officers are nice. The officers, yes. They treat you well here. But, as I told you, you're locked inside. You're not free. You're depressed," Elmer said from the detention center.

Elmer told ABC News that if he is deported again, he would make the harrowing choice of once again leaving Marisol behind in order to save her.

"I would prefer for her to be there and not see her ever again in person instead of sending her back to my country because she has no future there. And the danger that she was in -- that was the reason why I took her with me," Elmer said.

But after a month locked up in ICE detention, and eleven long months apart from Marisol, Elmer and his daughter were finally reunited this week.

"We're so happy, we don't even have words," he said.

They are staying in Wisconsin and making up for lost time while they seek asylum.

Jesus and Elmer, along with their families, have joined an ongoing class action lawsuit against the Trump administration filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, known as Ms. L v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al. The judge in that case had ordered the government to help find and reunify families that have been improperly separated.

Multiple government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and ICE, declined to comment about Elmer, Jesus and their families, citing this active litigation.

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Migrant families fought for reunification months after separation policy ended

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Ariel, 6, is all smiles as he FaceTimes with his parents and sister. "Missing you always," his father Jesus says in Spanish right before they disconnect. For nine months, their phone has been the only bridge between these parents, living in Honduras, and their son, staying with relatives in Washington, D.C.

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A student dies after a supposed hazing incident

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18-year old college freshman dies six days after suspected hazing incident

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An 18-year old University at Buffalo student died Wednesday after falling victim to a suspected hazing incident last week, his school's president said in a statement.

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Ohio man throws iguana at a restaurant manager

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Prehistoric 42,000 year old foal was found frozen and with liquid blood and urine, they are hoping to clone this animal.

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Russian researchers have found liquid blood and urine inside the frozen carcass of a foal that died 42,000 years ago in Siberia's Verkhoyansk region.

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Baby gets measles because of anti-vaxers

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Fainy Sukenik believes in vaccines, and her four children are up to date on all their shots. That's why she's furious that her baby got measles. Too young to be vaccinated, 8-month-old Shira Goldschmidt developed complications from the virus and had to be hospitalized.

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65 year-old woman hits burglar with a bat. The burglar ran away and police tracked him down

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When a Florida woman heard a noise and saw a man trying to break into her car early Sunday, she took matters into her own hands.

Clarese Gainey, 65, of Gainesville tells WGFL that she picked up her softball bat early Sunday, braced herself and eased open the door before hitting Antonio Mosley.

"I took that bat and hit him upside the head, like 'pi-yah,' "Gainey said, adding that the 5-foot-6, 300-pound man said, "Ow!"

Mosely ran to a nearby mobile home park, leaving behind his pants, shirt, and a sock, police said. A K-9 unit tracked him down, and Gainey said she easily identified him because of the knot on his head.

Gainey says she played softball in high school and can still swing a bat.

"He better be glad I didn't have a gun," Gainey said. "Because I would have shot him."

Mosely is being held in the Alachua County Jail on burglary and drug charges. A lawyer isn't listed on jail records.

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Senior slugger: 65-year-old woman hits burglar with bat

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When a Florida woman heard a noise and saw a man trying to break into her car early Sunday, she took matters into her own hands. Clarese Gainey, 65, of Gainesville tells WGFL that she picked up her softball bat early Sunday, braced herself and eased open the door before hitting Antonio Mosley.

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Duck and ducklings shut down a highway in Austria

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Mother duck and 10 ducklings escorted off Austrian highway

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AUSTRIA (STORYFUL) -- A duck and her 10 ducklings sparked the shutdown of a stretch of highway in southeast Austria on Sunday, April 14, after concerned road users spotted them on the road. Traffic officials helped escort the family to safety at the nearby River Mur.

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Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli never enrolled in USC, took parents' tuition cash

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Mossimo Giannulli, who along with wife Lori Loughlin has been charged with fraud stemming from the college admissions scam, took his parents' tuition money for University of Southern California (USC) but never actually enrolled, according to reports and his own daughter, Olivia Jade.

Giannulli, 55, admitted as much himself in a resurfaced 2016 interview.

"SC was expensive, so that was how I was starting my company. I used all that cash," he told The Hundreds, allegedly "unapologetically."
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Giannulli lived in a frat house despite not being enrolled in USC, where he screenprinted T-shirts for campus groups, which he says sparked his ambition. "I used to have hundreds of thousands of cash in my top drawer in my fraternity house. And I was like, 'This is kind of too easy. I need a bigger platform. If I had a bigger account base, I could really kill it.'"
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The fashion designer reportedly attended USC for the 1984 spring semester at the College of Continuing Education, which is a non-degree program with no official admission requirements and that is open to anyone. Students in the program have "visitor" status at the school.
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Olivia Jade recounted Giannulli's quasi-college experience on " The Zach Sang Show" on March 8, shortly before he and Loughlin, 54, were each arrested and released on $1 million bonds.

"I don't know if I am supposed to say this, sorry dad," the 19-year-old YouTube star said. "But [he] was like never enrolled in college, he faked his way through it. Yeah, so then he started his whole business with tuition money that his parents thought was going to college."
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Olivia Jade also claimed in the same interview that she mostly intended to capitalize on college for her own brand - but that didn't work out the way she'd planned.

Giannulli and former Hallmark starlet Loughlin are accused of paying two $500,000 bribes to William "Rick" Singer to get daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella into USC as crew team recruits, despite neither girl being a rower. They each face up to 40 years in prison after they rejected a plea bargain and were slapped with additional charges of money laundering and conspiracy.
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On Monday, the couple pleaded not guilty.

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Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli never enrolled in USC, took parents' tuition cash

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Mossimo Giannulli, who, along with wife Lori Loughlin has been charged with fraud stemming from the college admissions scam, took his parents' tuition money for University of Southern California (USC) - but never actually enrolled, according to reports and his own daughter, Olivia Jade.