Joe Giudice Facing 10 Years in Prison

Remember this story? Teresa Giudice was doing a book signing event in the Poconos. Joe, whose drivers’ license was revoked after that tree-hugging incident, had impersonated his brother to obtain another drivers license. Of course, because Joe Giudice is one of the world’s dumbest criminals, he was stopped by the police and arrested.  His mother bailed him out and drove him to Teresa’s event.

The Story:

JOE GIUDICE DOESN'T BELONG WHERE 'THOSE PEOPLE' ARE

So, NewJersey.com posted this article:

Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, husband of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice, was indicted by a Passaic Country Grand jury Tuesday on charges that he fraudulently obtained a New Jersey driver’s license, authorities said.

The indictment charges Giudice, 40, of Montville with one count of wrongfully using identifying information of another — his brother Pietro Giudice — and one count of impersonation.

Giudice allegedly obtained a driver’s license at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission office in Paterson in June 2010 using Pietro’s marriage and birth certificates, authorities said.

The investigation began after Pietro Giudice was pulled over during a routine traffic stop in Lincoln Park last March, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a statement.

When the officer ran Pietro’s information through his mobile terminal, the search yielded Pietro’s information but Giuseppe’s photograph, Valdes said.

See what I mean about world’s dumbest criminal?

Giuseppe’s license was suspended at the time, and is still suspended.

An investigation by the prosecutor’s Financial Crimes Unit, the Motor Vehicle Commission and the Lincoln Park police revealed that Giuseppe Giudice had obtained a New Jersey driver’s license utilizing Pietro’s identifying documents.

The charge of wrongfully using identifying information is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The impersonation charge carries a maximum 18-month prison sentence.

Joe,Joe, Joe.  As his wife works to get them out of the debt he owes due to the 8 million dollar bankruptcy, this ho’ chaser is about to go to prison.  Tsk. tsk, tsk

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UPDATE DECEMBER 2:

As a guest on the “Wendy Williams Show”, Victoria Gotti stated the confrontation between her and Teresa Giudice is worse than Nene Leakes and Star Jones last season.

Original Article:

As if Teresa Giudice doesn’t have enough going on with her Real Housewives of New Jersey cast mates, now she’s going up against Victoria Gotti.  Word on the street is Teresa and Victoria have had a dust-up while filming next season’s Celebrity Apprentice.

Victoria Gotti and model-actress Patricia Velasquez film on location for 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

 

from the New York Daily News:

A whole new crop of stars are working for Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice."
Victoria Gotti, Teresa Giudice, Debbie Gibson, Aubrey O'Day, Dee Snider and Lou Ferrigno were all photographed filming a competition on the streets of New York City on Tuesday

Many of the celebs were seen handing out flyers to lure customers into a Cafe Metro in Midtown.
On the menu? Giudice's "Hot-Blooded Housewife Hoagie" (Italian meats on focaccia bread for $100 a pop) and Gibson's "Teen Dream" (a $20 grilled cheese).

Other celebs who will be competing for the upcoming fifth season include Clay Aiken, Aresenio Hall, Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza, George Takei, Mario Andretti and Adam Carolla.

And you thought last season, with Nene Leakes and Star Jones was a train wreck?  Hope Teresa doesn’t end up with the same fate as "Tiny" Manzo.  Just Sayin’

Teresa Giudice On the Wendy Williams Show

 

teresa on the set of “celebrity apprentice”

Teresa Giudice was stunning in a red dress, with her long hair straight and parted down the middle,  but she needed Phaedra’s “prayer cloth” when she sat down.

Wendy launched into the Season 3 Real Housewives of New Jersey  reunion, saying she came off looking like the villain, after which the tide turned, as Jacqueline Laurita’s bankruptcy and the Manzo Brownstone scandal came to the forefront.

A new, media-savvy Teresa emerged.  In a couple of classy moves, she dodged Wendy’s questions about her cast mates and all questions about Celebrity Apprentice.

Wendy did ask about the night of the infamous Posche Fashion Show, when Joe was out with another woman. She says she and Joe are very happy. (of course)

Teresa did admit to speaking to Dina Manzo last week.

Wendy, in her frustration dubbed Teresa “cryptically shady”.

Some of Teresa’s recipes from”Fabulicious”, her second cookbook, were taste tested by Wendy.

At the end of the interview, when asked if Juicy Joe ate this food, Teresa’s answer was the Teresa we know:

“Joe eats all my food and eats me too”.

Without the inappropriate comment, would we know her? So much for classy.

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Jacqueline Laurita Named In $8 Million Lawsuit

So much for that glass house Jacqueline Laurita of the Real Housewives of New Jersey lives in.

Perhaps this is the reason she failed to make an appearance at the Season 3 reunion?   Jacqueline Laurita, her mother and her father in recent weeks have been all over twitter putting Teresa Giudice on blast. It was so bad even Ashley Holmes blocked her own grandmother.

Is this the reason Dina Manzo has stayed away from her brother?

What does Caroline Manzo, sister of Chris Laurita have to say about this? Does this include  BLK Beverages, run by Albie and Chris Manzo, but owned by Chris Laurita?

The Signature Group Bankruptcy was first reported in 2009:  Signature Group Files For Bankruptcy

 

from radaronline:

Chris and his brother Joseph Laurita founded Signature Apparel together in 2005, and according to court documents, drained the company and improperly used funds and assets to support their luxurious lifestyle -- to the tune of $7,804,227.

“The Laurita brothers soon drained the Company of all of its funds and assets in order to support their families’ increasingly opulent lifestyle of private jets, limousines, extravagant parties, premium automobiles, designer clothing, ostentatious home furnishings and lavish vacations,” the complaint that was filed on November 2, 2010, reads.

“Signature’s assets were misused to make outright and unjustified payments to Laurita family members, and to fund the operations of the Laurita brothers’ other companies and business ventures.”

The Laurita’s business venture was quite successful, banking more than $250 million between 2005 and 2009, according to the documents.

But in November of 2009 the company filed bankruptcy prompting the debtor to come forward with the complaint and here are some examples of how they claim monies were misused:

* Nearly $2 million in credit card payments for the Laurita Family, including payments to more than 40 bank accounts.
* At least $331,637 for payments on no less than eleven leased cars, including a Bentley and a Maserati.
* At least $284,793 in airline travel expenses for the Laurita Family.
* At least $145,894 for private airplane rentals for the Laurita Family.
* At least $7,280 for travel agent expenses for the Laurita Family.
* At least $755,184 to defendant Christopher Laurita for undocumented or insufficiently documented reasons.
* At least $784,160 of disbursements directed by the Laurita Director Defendants (Chris and Joseph) to unknown recipients, without any documentation whatsoever.

“Jacqueline and Anthony Laurita each knew of the Laurita Director Defendant’s wrongful conduct, and each substantially assisted the Laurita Director Defendants in breaching their fiduciary duties by, among other conduct, accepting funds they each knew belonged to Signature and for which they each knew they had performed no services and/or provided no value,” the claim continued.

“Funds that should have been used to grow Signature’s business and to pay Signature’s vendors and creditors, instead were diverted to the Laurita Family Defendants.”

On March 14, 2011 Jacqueline and her husband Chris filed an amended answer to the complaint, wherein Jacqueline states she “lacks knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations of the First Amended Complaint.”

Jacqueline’s husband denied nearly all of the 155 allegations made in the claim and states that the complaint should be dismissed “because of a failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and a failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.”

Jacqueline is claiming to be “too stupid to know” about any financial malfeasance.  She is as believable as Teresa Giudice when she made the same claim.

I believe them both.  They never asked their husbands, or wondered where the money came from, they just spent.  Chris Laurita came off as one of the few likeable characters on this New Jersey train wreck.  Another one bites the dust.

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Teresa Giudice Story All Smoke and Mirrors

Teresa Giudice clearly doesn’t know when to quit, especially if she’s getting paid.  She’s the cover story on In Touch Weekly , again.  Like a Rob Shuter piece in the Huffington Post, no sources are named.  All the information in the piece is public knowledge. 

From the article:

A source tells In Touch magazine that Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita and Melissa Gorga are dealing with their own financial problems — and seeing Teresa doing better is driving them insane with jealousy!
During the Oct. 16 reunion, Caroline slammed Teresa for her financial problems when she herself is battling her own crisis. “She and her husband have big credit problems, and they’ve mortgaged the hell out of The Brownstone [the Manzo's event space],” a source close to Teresa claims. The Manzos are also dealing with two other situations: a scandal surrounding Caroline’s husband and a lawsuit against her sons.

The scandal surrounding Albert Manzo?  Al Manzo Fired From Water Commission by Gov; Christie

The lawsuit against Albie Manzo and Chris?  How disingenious of Teresa’s failure to disclose the fact that she and husband Joe Giudice  are responsible for the arrests in Punta Cana, when Teresa threw a drink on a woman in the bar and a brawl....about to go into litigation, unless Bravo TV pays off the victims, ensued. Not to mention that they are under a gag order, but here’s Teresa talking about it.

Beatdown in Punta Cana

 

from the article:

Caroline has constantly been negative about Teresa’s cookbooks, products and appearances. “It’s sad that Caroline is trying to attack my livelihood,” Teresa told the magazine.
Jacqueline is also jealous that Teresa can afford a certain lifestyle when she’s facing money troubles. “I’ve seen her husband Chris’ credit cards declined numerous times,” admits the source.
An insider believes that Jacqueline sold a photo of Teresa’s husband Joe out with another woman, as a way to get revenge against Teresa.
And to top it all off, Teresa claims that the only reason that Melissa married her brother is for his money. “We were out to dinner with a few other couples,” Teresa says of an incident that took place early on in Melissa and Joe Gorga‘s marriage. “She got a little buzzed, and she said she didn’t like him when she first met him. ‘But then,’ she says, ‘I saw his house.’”

 

This “insider” doesn’t know very much. Kim Granatell’s publicist obtained the photo and sent it out to everyone, including me:

The woman in the photo is not Tara F., this is another old flame of Joe’s.

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In another part of the Twitterverse, Jacqueline Laurita displays a fair amount of immaturity by busting out instead of letting Teresa hang herself:

Teresa,keep spending all the money u do &making profit from peoplew/ fake stories u sell.It will catch up to u.U never stopped spending.

JacLauritaJacqueline Laurita

Another disgusting display of Teresas lies. Keep hanging yourself!Tell every1 the plan2file4bankruptcy#2@how u laugh At beating the system!

In the case of the Manzo’s finances, I found this, but it’s ancient history now.

The bulk of the Manzo family's income stems from their event and catering hall The Brownstone. But Caroline's husband Albert has been involved in over 30 judgments and liens (one brought on by a family member) since the early '90s up until two years ago . And while it can be expected that a business that deals with picky brides and numerous vendors to be caught up in several financial disputes, there was also a state tax lien in 2000 for $10,546.17, as well as a judgment in favor of the Federal Mortgage Association for $148,000, plus a few judgments in favor of the First Bank of USA and North Jersey Federal Credit for a combined total of over $10,000. It would seem that these specific issues, however, have been resolved.

None of these women know exactly what their husbands do to obtain money. Until they got Bravo income of their own, they didn’t wonder about it, either. Not just these women, but Alexis Bellino  of the Real Housewives of Orange County, Taylor Armstrong of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Nene Leakes of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, or Larsa Pippen of the Real Housewives of Miami.

  Part 2 of the Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 3  Reunion airs Sunday

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