Lori Loughlin is en route to Los Angeles to surrender to authorities after she was implicated in a massive college admissions cheating scandal.
The former Full House star is among 50 people, including fellow celebrity Felicity Huffman, who have been accused of paying bribes to get their children into America's top colleges.
Loughlin, 54, is flying from Canada to Los Angeles and will turn herself in. She has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Both Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were charged. They allegedly paid $500,000 to get their daughters Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella, 20, into the University of Southern California. Giannulli is already in custody.
Lori Loughlin is en route to Los Angeles to surrender to authorities after she was implicated in a massive college admissions cheating scandal (Loughlin with daughters Olivia and Bella in February)
The former Full House star is among 50 people, including fellow celebrity Felicity Huffman (pictured with her daughters and husband William H Macy), who have been accused of paying bribes to get their children into America's top colleges
The couple allegedly paid the half-million dollar sum to get their daughters into the school as fake rowing recruits. Neither daughter participated in crew.
Loughlin has also been frantically deleting all of her social media, including her Instagram and Twitter, as her name made headline news on Tuesday.
The scheme was uncovered by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, who discovered the affluent parents had paid a total of $6million in bribes to get their children into elite schools.
In many instances, the children were unaware that their parents had paid these bribes, according to federal documents.
Most of those charged either paid to get higher SAT scores or faked an athletic resume that, with the participation of a bribed college coach, helped the children get accepted to a college as a team's recruit.
Prosecutors said in court on Tuesday that some students also lied about their ethnicity on applications to take advantage of affirmative action.
Like Loughlin and her husband, Huffman has been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Huffman has two daughters with husband William H. Macy including Sofia, who is 18, and 16-year old Georgia.
Macy, who was not charged, was seen in court on Tuesday to support his wife.
Loughlin and Giannulli's attorney Perry Viscounty was also at the courthouse on Tuesday, according to The Blast.
Viscounty was reportedly fighting to get Loughlin 'safe passage' through the airport so that he can consult with her before she surrenders to authorities. It remains unclear why Loughlin was in Canada.
Support system: Huffman and Giannulli have been arrested while a warrant is out for Loughlin's arrest (William H macy, who has not been charged, arrives in court on Tuesday)
The write stuff: One mother, Jane Buckingham, submitted a handwriting sample from her son to make sure it would match when an individual took a test for her son (above), documents allege
'Beginning in or about 2011, and continuing through the present, the defendants - principally individuals whose high-school age children were applying to college - conspired with others to use bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate their children's admission to colleges and universities in the District of Massachusetts and elsewhere, including Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California, and the University of Southern California - Los Angeles,' stated the 200 page document that was filed on Tuesday.
'This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth, combined with fraud,' US Attorney Andrew Lelling said on Tuesday in a press conference.
'There can be no separate college admission for wealthy, and I will add there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.'
William Rick Singer, the founder of Key Worldwide Foundation, had been identified as the alleged mastermind behind the scandal.
The documents claim that since 2011, Singer has received $25 million from parents which was then used to payoff or bribe individuals who could 'designate their children as recruited athletes, or other favored admissions categories.'
Huffman paid a $15,000 'charitable contribution 'to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter,' states the complaint.
'Huffman later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so,' according to the documents.
The charging documents state that Huffman had the site where he daughter took the SATs moved from her own high school to a test center West Hollywood.
Her test was then administered by a proctor who had flown in from Tampa and told investigators that he 'facilitated cheating, either by correcting the student's answers after the test or by actively assisting the student during the exam.'
In this case, Huffman's daughter scored a 1420, which was a 400 point improvement from her PSAT results just one year prior.
Soon after the proctor was paid $40,000 by Key Worldwide Foundation, the same organization that Huffman would later give a $15,000 donation to, according to the documents.
The documents also include the transcript of a phone call between Huffman and the individual who facilitated the test in which she admits that her older daughter had assistance and expresses her desire for her younger daughter to get similar help.
In a follow up call just this past December, Huffman and her unnamed spouse spoke about their daughter wanting to get into Georgetown.
It was then decided that the young girl would take the exam twice, one on her own and once with help, to ensure she got the score necessary to get her into Georgetown, it is claimed.
Then, at the last second, the couple decided not to have their daughter take the test with assistance.
Mastermind: William Rick Singer, the founder of the Edge College & Career Network who became a cooperating witness in the case, leaves court on Tuesday (above)
Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer
Caught in the act: Huffman and her spouse gave a $15,000 donation to the group that later paid the man who proctored the SAT to her daughter (above)
Plan: A recorded phone conversation makes it evident that Huffman is aware that her daughter will be assisted in the test (above)
Plan: In one call from last year, Huffman revealed she planned to use the same system for her younger daughter (above) after it worked for her older daughter
Loughlin and Giannulli 'agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team - despite the fact that they did not participate in crew - thereby facilitating their admission to USC,' according to the documents.
The couple emailed Singer in 2016 about their daughters college prospects, stating that they wanted to do the necessary work to see that the girls got into USC as opposed to ASU.
Emails obtained by investigators revealed that it was soon decided that bribes would be paid to have the girls recruited as crew coxswains.
A short time after that, photos were taken of older daughter Isabella on an ergometer.
Ball: An example of a student whose face was photoshopped onto another that was included in court documents
Dr. Donna Heinel, the senior associate athletic director at USC, presented Isabella as a potential athletic recruit a month later and she was approved for conditional admission.
It was then asked that a check be sent to Heinle for $50,000 from Giannulli, who a short
