Teresa Giudice may be home for the holidays.
The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star is set to be released from the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution on Wednesday, her attorney told The Record of northern New Jersey.
“Here’s what I can tell you … she’s getting released on December 23, I don’t know exactly what time,” her attorney James Leonard Jr. said. “I will be picking her up and driving her home.”
Giudice and her husband Joe both pleaded guilty in March 2014 to numerous federal fraud charges.
The judge agreed to allow her to serve her 15-month sentence first and delayed her husband’s having to report for his 41-month sentence to ensure that the couple’s four daughters would have at least one parent present to care for them.
Joe Giudice, who is not a U.S. citizen, also faces possible deportation once he completes his sentence.
Teresa Giudice will have served 11½ months. Her attorney said that upon her release she will be on home confinement until February 5.
“During that period, she will be able to work, she will be able to take care of business, medical [things],” Leonard said. “She’ll be out and about. And then when that period ends, she will begin a [two-year] period of supervised release.”
His client is reportedly set to return to the reality show that made her famous. A cookbook author, Giudice has also co-authored “Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again,” along with People magazine staff writer K.C. Baker. It will be released on February 9.