EXCLUSIVE: Judge Orders Teresa Giudice's Hubby To Pay $260K To Former Business Partner
May 28 2018, Updated 10:16 a.m. ET
A New Jersey judge has ordered the shady husband of Real Housewives spendaholic Teresa Giudice to pay $260,000 to a former business partner, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.
EXCLUSIVE COURT DOCUMENTS: Read The Judgment
In a damning finding, Judge Morris Stern found Joe Giudice forged ex-pal Joe Mastropole's signature on a mortgage document and then spun a "web of lies" in order to take out another loan and pocket $1 million.
Suggesting Joe had a "lack of credibility", Judge Stern also ordered the house husband -- who along with Teresa are almost $11 million in debt -- to pay back the money despite their legal claim for bankruptcy protection.
"The signing of Mastropole's name was a forgery... exhibiting willfulness and malice toward a former friend and current adversar," Judge Stern wrote in his judgment, handed down in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark on Monday.
"The extraordinary web of lies and mi