Joe Giudice’s Family Snubs Teresa In Court, Mother Yells: ‘We Just Want Him Home!’
Sept. 11 2019, Updated 6:26 p.m. ET
Joe Giudice’s large family, including his mother, brother, aunts, uncles and cousins, came to support him in a do-or-die immigration court hearing on September 11 — but the group gave his wife Teresa the cold shoulder, Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively report.
In the Pennsylvania court room, Teresa, 47, dressed in a black pantsuit, sat near her attorney, but did not speak once to Joe’s ailing mother, Filomena Giudice, or his brother, Peter.
Teresa “arrived separately” from Joe’s clan, and “kept to herself,” an onlooker told Breaking Celebrity News. (As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Joe’s family finds Teresa’s recent partying in Myokonos and the Jersey Shore amid her husband’s legal problems “unforgivable.”)
Joe, who hasn’t been seen in public since his March 2016 check-in to federal prison on fraud charges, even made an appearance on video from ICE’s Clinton County Correctional Facility in McElhattan, Pennsylvania, where he has called home for the past six months.
“He lost so much weight, about 80 pounds,” the onlooker said. “He looked sickly, and sad.”
Joe’s lawyer argued the 49-year-old father of four should be released from ICE custody on bond while he fights a judge’s October 2018 deportation order in an appeal, citing the Guerrero-Sanchez case. (A federal court ruled individuals detained for more than 180 days are entitled to a bond hearing.)
The lawyer argued that since he’s been in ICE custody since March, he is eligible for release.
However, the prosecutor claimed that since he’s been convicted of past crimes, he should not be eligible.
“Given his sentence, 41 months in prison, two years of supervised release that led him to immigration custody, he is a flight risk and a danger to society,” the prosecutor said. "He has numerous interactions with police. He has a family here and there is reason to believe that he won’t turn himself in to ICE custody if he is ordered deported.”
Joe’s attorney argued for supervised release, and promised his client's total cooperation with ICE.
“He just w