William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin Los Angeles, CA —I spent the afternoon in the courtroom of Federal Magistrate, Alexander MacKinnon .     He arraigned and set bail for a handful of accused that had already been indicted on Conspiracy and Racketeering charges   The vast majority of the 31 people were only brought before the court for an Initial Appearance on Complaints.  That’s the first step in the process.  Those brought in on complaints have a bit of wiggle room to save themselves.  At this point there are some 50 people caught up in this very novel prosecution.  Prosecutors allege that the ringleader, Rick Singer ran a consulting company that facilitated fixing ACT and SAT scores with the use of a ringer by the name of  Mark Riddell who took these tests for the applicants.   Prosecutors also said that Singer proceeded to bribe various schoo...