'Real Houswives' Teresa Giuduce Raided by Federal Agents, Feds Make Off With Kids' Christmas Gifts (Update)

Teresa Giuduce Raided by Federal Agents, Feds Make Off With Kids' Christmas Gifts

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Asset seizure can be a real bitch sometimes. 

Real Housewives of New Jersey centerpiece Teresa Giudice is going to prison at the beginning of 2015 after her and her husband were found guilty of fraud earlier this year. What the Giudice clan probably wasn't planning on was a raid by federal agents and what will surely be the worst Christmas for anyone living in Montville, New Jersey. An outstanding restitution bill of $422,00 was the impetus behind the raid and agents tore apart the house taking off with anything of value. Cash, jewelry, television sets, and in a move that's almost cartoonish in its heartlessness, the officials even took the still-wrapped Christmas presents. That's cold by any measure, even for the feds. Giudice is set to begin her 15-month-long prison terms in January, 2015.

UPDATE: A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office is now denying that any sort of raid of Giudice house happened. "We didn't undertake any action like that," the spokesman told The Huffington Post. "There seems to be a lot of specific detail in [the articles]. If there was going to be something like that, our office would be involved. It just didn't happen." So apparently Christmas is still on for the Giudice kiddies. 

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