JOE Giudice is asking to see his family again and is calling on President Donald Trump to help him.
The former reality TV star served a 41-month jail sentence in 2014 after being convicted of tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud before being deported back to Italy in 2019.
He eventually moved to the Bahamas in 2021 and has been trying to gain entry back into the US since then.
In an Instagram post, Giudice, 53, pleaded to the president to allow him to return to the US, where he grew up.
“I’m Joe Giudice. I served my time, and I’ve been deported from the U.S. for nearly a decade,” he wrote with a picture of him and his daughters.
“I was raised in Jersey, I’m a father of four amazing daughters, and I just want to be allowed to visit them again.
“President Trump, I respect you and I’m asking for a second chance.”
In the post, Giudice tagged the president and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
“I’m trying. Joe should be back home with his beautiful daughters!!!!!!” wrote Giudice’s former Real Housewives of New Jersey co-star, Siggy Flicker, who was appointed to the US Holocaust Memorial Council by Trump earlier this year.
Giudice’s ex-wife, Teresa Giudice, also commented with a praying hands and heart emoji.
Some of Joe’s daughters also posted comments, including Milania and Gia, who shared their love for their father.
Another person wrote, “If he can pardon the Chrisleys, he can pardon JOE!!!!”
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The comment refers to Todd and Julie Chrisley, who received a presidential pardon last month and were released from prison early.
The couple received a combined 19-year prison sentence after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans in November 2022.
Giudice praised the couple’s daughter, Savannah Chrisley, for having “worked hard” in lobbying the Trump administration to grant clemency for her parents.
JOE’S CRIMES
Teresa Giudice also served 11 months in prison for the same crime, which the Department of Justice said at the time highlighted the risks of “cheating the government” by failing to pay taxes.
“The Giudices together deceived financial institutions with patently false loan applications; were dishonest when they sought the protection of the bankruptcy court and hid assets and income from the trustee; and Giuseppe [Joe] Giudice cheated the government by failing to pay taxes on years of significant income,” said US Attorney Paul J. Fishman at the time.
“When they pleaded guilty, both admitted swearing to statements they knew were lies. Prison is the appropriate penalty for these serious financial crimes.”
Giudice said in 2023 that he doesn’t believe his actions warranted him being deported back to Italy.
“I got thrown into a country that I knew nothing about. All right, basically, just dumped there like, like, like, I don’t know, like, I guess a dog, you know what I mean. Not even a dog gets dumped like that,” he said.
“And, you know, thank God, Italy took me in and, and basically took care of me. You know, they actually treated me like a person, not like the US.
“The US treats you like garbage. I mean, they treat their own citizens like garbage. You know what? I mean, it’s ridiculous the way they treat people there when you get involved in, you know, certain things like this.”
Giudice’s lawyer, Jessica Cadavid, told TMZ, that her client doesn’t believe he’ll ever be given permanent residence in the US again.
However, he hopes he’ll be able to visit the US occasionally to see his daughters, which Cadavid believes is possible since he wasn’t convicted of a violent crime.
