'The Real Housewives' Star Teresa Giudice to Be Freed from Prison Before Christmas
"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice will get to spend Christmas with her family because she is set to be freed from prison on Wednesday, her legal counsel said.
Teresa Guidice will be released from the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution on Wednesday and will be confined at home until Feb. 5, Atty. James Leonard Jr. said. He added that the "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star is excited to come home to her husband Joe and four daughters, according to the Windsor Star.
Leonard expressed his plan to pick up Giudice from the Connecticut prison and drive her home to Montville. He did not reveal more details about his client's release, the report details.
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Giudice was given a 15-month sentence that began in January this year after she and her husband Joe pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud charges filed against them last year. The Giudices had confessed to hiding some assets from their creditors and filing for loans to obtain $5 million. Leonard explained that the reality star is being released because she exhibited good behavior in jail, ABC News reports.
"She's looking forward to coming home. She's going to go straight home," Leonard told ABC. "She's not going to a halfway house. She's going to get to spend Christmas with her family and get back to her life."
Joe, on the other hand, will begin his 41-month jail sentence in March 2016. He had earlier pleaded guilty to failing to pay his taxes. He will serve his prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix.
Meanwhile, Joe could reportedly face deportation to Italy after he is freed from prison. This is because he is not a U.S. citizen, the report adds.
It is worth noting that Joe and Teresa Giudice's sentences were staggered because a federal judge considered the situation of their children.
