"Real Housewives of New Jersey" stars Teresa and Joe Giudice face new bank fraud charges.
The reality TV couple
could spend decades in prison if convicted on the 41 counts alleged in
an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in New Jersey.
The Giudices allegedly
faked documents and lied on applications to get more than $5 million in
loans over eight years before they joined the "The Real Housewives of
New Jersey" cast in 2009.
They both entered "not
guilty" pleas in August to the original 39 counts, including conspiracy
to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on
loan applications, and bankruptcy fraud.
The husband and wife are
due in court in Newark for the added charges on Wednesday, according to
U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. The new counts stem from a $361,250 mortgage
loan that Teresa Giudice, 41, got in 2005, Fishman said.
"In the course of
obtaining the loan, she and Giuseppe Giudice prepared a loan application
which falsely stated that Teresa Giudice was employed as a realtor and
that she had a monthly salary of $15,000," Fishman said. "Teresa Giudice
was not employed outside the home at the time."
Giudice lawyer Miles
Feinstein told reporters in August that the couple would not be
testifying against each other in the case, which he said they expect to
win.
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