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Teresa Giudiceis sharing her honest thoughts aboutJen Shah’s prison sentence.
On Friday, Shah, 49, wassentenced to 78 months in prison(6.5 years) for her role in orchestrating a fraud scheme. While Giudice has also experienced her share of legal battles, spending a little over 11 months in prison for mail, wire, and bankruptcy fraud in 2015, she shared onthe latest episodeof theNamaste B$tchespodcast that she “can’t relate” to Shah.
“I wouldn’t steal anybody’s money,” Giudice, 50, told fellow podcast hostMelissa Pfeister. “I would not do that. I would never do that. That’s so bad.”
“I’m a mother first. That was my first priority always since I started the show,” she added. “I always put my kids first.”
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Continued Giudice: “But when you’re stealing from people and the kids could read this, and be like, ‘Mom, well why’d you do this’, what do you say to your kids to that?”
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The podcast host has four daughters —Gia, 22;Gabriella, 18;Milania, 16, andAudriana, 13, whom she shares with her ex-husbandJoe Giudice. As one of the franchise’s mainstays since debuting onThe Real Housewives of New Jerseyin 2009, Giudice added that all Shah can do while serving her sentence is “keep it together.”
Shah will begin her sentence on Feb. 17, according to Matthew Lee of Inner City Press. Though U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein did not specify the facility in which Shah will serve out her sentence during her court appearance on Friday, it is said to be in the"Texas region."
After she leaves prison, Judge Stein also ordered Shah to servefive years of supervised release"to make sure youdon’t end up committing another crime," Matthew Lee of Inner City Press posted to Twitter.
source: people.com
