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she is best known for throwingtables around on the real housewives of new jersey but tonight teresa Guidicev is facing drama of a much much serious variety.
she and her husband joe are looking at possbile jail time after pleading guilty to charges of fraud they’re not the first rality stars to deal with off-camer disaster .
one on one arriving at a federal court in newmark new jersey holding hands teresa and joe Giduice the stars of the
real housewives of new jersey .
today pleaded guilty to conspircay to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bankruptcy.
” teresa and Gisueppe Giudice both admitted to a federal judge that over the better parto f a decade they were engaged in a scheme to defreqaud financial institutions and the IRS.
it was the culmination of an almost eight month long legal fight .
for federal prosecutors pressented evidence
that the reality TV stars lavish lifestyle was funded partially
on ill -.gotten gains outside the ccourt.
outside the couft Teresa Giudice is attorney read a statement from her .
“today i took responsibility for a seriesof misstake i made several years ago.i’m heartbroken that this is affcting my family .
wendy feldman , has been counseling the Giudice ‘s through every step of their legal i ordeal .
“it’s stressful to go through it in private so you compound that by the fact that their reality stars.it’s very tough”
she says their legal problems were only compounded by being on reality TV.
” part of they are charged with played out on television
it was just another page in a tangled history of reality TV in a series
known for its over -the -top theatrics.
she is perhaps the most recognized and controversial of them all.
a women is famous for for her excess .
it’s pretty much marble ,granite onyx
as she is for her legendary katfights.
teresa and her husbuand ‘s lucurious new jersey mansion back in january.
while they were still in the crossairs of federal indictment
a livsh lifestyle that may have drawn the atention of federal prosecutors .
the prosecutors say there’s a pattern here that goes back to 2001of misrepresenting how much teresa and her husband were making in order to get loans and then misrepresenting how little your wer making when it came to filing fot taxes and bid bankrupytcy.
the Giudice s are just the latest in a string of reality TV stars whos fortunes turned after they became famous.
teresa Giudice has turned the white -hot glare of celibritiy
into a successfulbusiness .
she is a best -selling cookbook author.
she sells everything from haircare
to desserts
to her flavored bellini
which she calls a fabellini.
teresa and joe run the business together, she is the face he is the salesman.working behind the scene. they hope to make this their legacy .
the giudice family isgrappling with the consequence of their guilty plea how this stress and going through this can you bring you closer or it drift you apart.
in this case with joe an teresa it’s brought them closer together
teresa and joe has four daughters.Gia.Gabriella Milania and audriana. the oldest 13 the youngest 4
as a convictec fellon joe hwo was born in Italy is not a US citizen could face deportation .teresa have been married to joe for 14 years.he’s been here his whole life
their attorney said he would fight any attempt to deport the the father of four .
“i think it would be a grave injustice for him to be deported, he’s not a man of violence but it would just be inhumane to the children and teresa for him to be deported.
joe is facing up to 46 month in prison , teresa up to 27months .
something they always knew was a possibility .
the real trouble for the two stars of the real housewives of new jersey in federal caurt today facing mortgage fraud and other scharges .
they are known for fierce battles and legal roses and now now could be facing their biggest battle of all
this two popular reality stars are facing a different kind of reality , the possibility of a life behind bars.
table flipping
family loving teresa her husband joe from
bravo’s real housewives of new jersey
were indicted monday on federal fraud charges.
if convicted they could spend as many as 50 years in prison.
according to court documents obtained by ABC news . the Giudice allegedly
” submitted …fals and fraudulent mortgage and other loan applications” feom 2001 to 2008.
the documents also say joe failed to submit tax returns and did not
tell the truth in bankruptcy court.
Teresa is accused of reporting fake jobs and fake incomes one of them she said that she was an executive assistent. she went so far as to file w-2 forms allegedly.
federal prosecutors also say the 41 year old mother known by fans for her lavish spending habits
and opulent new jersey mansion .
tried to hide the money she was earning from the real housewife when filing for bankruptcy in 2009.
Bravo declined to comment on th matter still the couple’s past could now be endangering their future and thhe well-being of their four daughters .
the daughters have also grown up in the spotlight if both their parents go to jail , it’s hard to say wahat would actually happen to the kids.
in a statement Teresa Giudice called monday’s indictment a most difficult day for our family saying she intends to maintain our lives in the best way possible.
Teresa Giudice’s lawyer says she will plead not guilty adding we look forward to vindicating her .
“I’m, a jersey girl , no one can knock me down “
apparently not even the long arm of the law
and for more on the case ABC’s chief legal affairs anchor Dan Abrams .
” they’ve thrown the book at them ,you’re talking about a 30 -39 count indictment are you talking about a mail and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud , bank fraud, a whole series of others charges and they saying that this started back in 2001 in effect what they were doing
they say is when they were applying for loans ,they would ovestate what they had ,they would file fake w2s and create fake pay stubs and then yet when they filed for bankruptcy they would do just the opposite
which is to minimize the amount of assets that they had,but the authorities are really saying that they went to great lenghts ,this is not just messing with up some numbers.
the authoritites are claiming that they went to great lengths to lie, to the banks , to the courts ,in connection with this long history what they say is fraud.
” there certainly both implicated and a number of the charges are conspircay where they work together but for example they’re saying that he didn’t file tax returns for between 2004 and 2008.
that just relates to him but for many of the most serious charges .
both of them it¨s going to be very interesting to see if they try and get one of them to flip on the other one.
but i don’t think they’re going to offer a deal that would not involve serious prison time here . so i think that a deal might be hard in and of itself .
-Dan Abrams
here she is back home in new jersey , a real housewife again.
out shoppong for groceries
settling back into the routine.
Giudice even posted a video message to the fans that stood by her during what had to be a very difficult year.
for the past year orange was the new black for this reality show superstar, inmate number six five seven 0 three- zero five.
at the federal correctional institution in Danbury connecticut
after she and her husband pled guilty to 41 counts of fraud .
Teresa Giudice served eleven months behind bars.she’s coming back home to her family but she has just a few months with her husband and at that point joe will then have to go to prison to serve his sentence.
but she has just a few months with her husband and at that point joe will then have to go to prison to serve his sentence.
joe Giudice is facing 41months in prison.
couples money roses continues having fought off foreclosure proceedings on their new jersey mansion. they still have to pay fourteen thousand dollars in restitution to wells fargo
plus the IRS recently hit them with a five hundred fifty one thousand dollar lien for unpaid taxes.
but teresa still came home to an early christmas present a brand new Lexus SUV tied with a bow
presumably nobody flippedthe table at this year’s christmas dinner.
this one had lots of group hugs.
Bravo cameras reportedly documenting the whole scene. harsh reality can wait. teresa has no public apperances planned .
for now she’s just glad to be home for good.
after serving 41 months in prison , joe was deported to his native italy in 2019 , even though h lived his whole life in the united states.
the couple subsequently split and have been divorced since 2020.
joe then moved to the Bahamas ,where his daughters take turns visiting him.