Teresa Giudice is suing her former bankruptcy attorney, claiming he’s the reason she’s currently serving a 15-month jail sentence.
Her lawyer, Carlos Cuevas, has filed the malpractice suit on her behalf a year after it was reported she was suing him for $5 million, while she’s in jail.
"As alleged in the complaint -- if he had taken appropriate action as her attorney, entrusted with her welfare, she would not be incarcerated,” Cuevas told Entertainment Tonight..
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star and her husband, Joe Giudice, plead guilty to multiple fraud charges in 2014 and they were both sentenced later that year. Joe was sentenced to 41 months in jail and he will report shortly after she’s released in December.
"The missteps were so bad she had to plead guilty to bankruptcy fraud," Cuevas continued. "Emotionally it's a tremendous strain, because imagine going to bed at night and not being able to say to your children, 'I love you.'"
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