Real Housewives Of New Jersey’s Joe Giudice Rejects Plea Deal

By Amber Goodhand – Radar Reporter

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice‘s husband pleaded not guilty and rejected a plea deal on his fraud and impersonation charges.

Joe Giudice — who is facing up to 10 years in prison — appeared in a Paterson, New Jersey, courthouse on Monday with his attorney Miles Feinstein and dismissed a plea deal that would have capped his sentence to five years.

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As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Joe was indicted on December 20, 2011 by a grand jury in the Garden State and charged with fraudulently obtaining a driver’s license in his brother’s name.

Joe, 40, was charged by a Passaic County grand jury with one count of impersonation and one count of wrongfully using identifying information of another, authorities said.

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When his license was suspended, according to officials, Joe used his brother Pietro’s marriage and birth certificates to obtain a driver’s license with his picture — and his brother’s info — at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.

Teresa and the rest of the gang will be premiering the fourth season of their hit Bravo show this spring.

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