Lou Palatella

Palatella played football for Vandegrift High School and college football at the University of Pittsburgh,[1][2] and then played as a guard and a linebacker with the San Francisco 49ers[3] for four seasons.[1][4]

After retiring from football, Palatella became a liquor distributor in Southern California. He owns a tequila company[4] and a bourbon distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, which his wife Marci and he opened in 2018.[5][6]

Lou Palatella is married to Marci Palatella who was charged in connection to 2019 college admissions bribery scandal and is facing mail fraud charges for allegedly paying $575,000 to a nonprofit that allegedly assisted in her son’s SAT test and conspiring to bribe a University of Southern California athletic director to designate her son as a football recruit.[7][8] Following her arrest, Marci pled not guilty and was released on a $1,000,000 unsecured bond.[9] She would appear in court.[9] On August 24, 2021, Marci reversed course and agreed to plead guilty.[10][11] The next day, she officially pled guilty to conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.[12] Marci has been recommended by the prosecution and defense to serve a sentence of six weeks in prison, a $250,000 fine, two years of supervised release, with a condition of home confinement for the first six months of supervised release, and 500 hours of community service.[10]