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 Teresa Giudice, 43, pleaded guilty in March 2014 to charges
related to hiding income to maintain her lavish lifestyle,
portrayed on the Bravo channel program that shows her and her
husband living in luxury.
She is due to be released on Wednesday from the low-security
federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she began serving
her sentence in January, The Record newspaper of New Jersey
reported on Sunday, citing her attorney, James Leonard Jr.
Her husband, Giuseppe Giudice of Towaco, New Jersey, pleaded
guilty to similar charges and was sentenced to a 41-month prison
term, which a judge ordered him to serve after Teresa Giudice
was released from prison to ensure that their four daughters
were properly cared for.
Leonard and prison officials did not immediately respond to
requests for comment on Sunday.
The couple appeared in six seasons of the "Real Housewives"
show, with Bravo channel show, once paying $120,000 in cash to
furnish a room in their house styled after a French chateau.
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In their plea deals, they admitted that from 2001 through 2008, they
submitted fraudulent applications for mortgages and other loans,
falsely claiming to have substantial salaries.
The couple filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, concealing
businesses they owned, income from rental property, and Teresa
Giudice's income from the show, prosecutors said.
Giuseppe Giudice is an Italian citizen and the judge that sentenced
the couple warned that he could be deported after he finishes his
sentence.
(Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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