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Lori Loughlin told Rick Singer her daughters 'love USC' months before arrest in admissions scandal

LOS ANGELES - In November 2018, William "Rick" Singer picked up the phone in a government building in Boston and dialed a Los Angeles number. "Lori, it's Rick Singer. How are you?"

"I'm good, Rick," Lori Loughlin said. "How are you?"

"Good. The girls good?"

"They're really good," she said. "They love USC. They're really happy."

Approached by federal agents two months earlier and convinced to cooperate, Singer was recording the call. He turned to a practiced script: He was being audited,

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