As Teresa Giudice's attorneys prepare for her upcoming federal fraud case, they have filed a pretrial motion demanding the government outline the basis of the allegations in the 41-count indictment against her, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

In the court docs, obtained exclusively by Breaking Celebrity News, the Real Housewives of New Jersey's lawyers state, "The indictment repeatedly uses vague and amorphous words and phrases, but fails to provide additional detail to allow Teresa to defend herself against these allegations.

"In fact, the Defense has accessed and reviewed the Government's discovery in the U.S. Attorney's Office on many occasions, and still cannot determine what the basis is for many of the allegations set forth in the Indictment. Accordingly, the Indictment is woefully deficient."

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The mother of four formally responds to prosecutors' reluctance to allow her trial to be separate from husband Joe's.

"The defendant moved to sever the trial from her husband, asserting that she wished to testify on her own behalf at trial, but that her testimony would inculpate her husband," the docs state.

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